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clustiere
Trad climber
Durango, CO
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 5, 2006 - 07:28pm PT
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La Sportiva
Mojo
Aero
Way too tight Miura (my bad sizing)
5.10
Coyote
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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5.10 cliffs--first pair
5.10 newtons--waaaaaay to stiff
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ewto
Mountain climber
Ohio
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Merrell's ... the left sole began to delaminate half way up devil's tower, en route to Yosemite. It was only the third time I had climbed in them. Stopped in at a store en route and they replaced them free, but near the end of a couple weeks in Yosemite, they started to delaminate again. They again replaced them. I stil have them, but only use them as loaners ... I'm back to my resoled Boreal Fire's... ahhhh.
I don't think Merrell makes rock shoes anymore... good thing.
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Moof
Trad climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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Boreal Aces. Amazing some of the things they would skitter off of. Too stiff as well.
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Mimi
Trad climber
Seattle
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Aces? Those things are amazing. Must've been part of a bad batch.
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WBraun
climber
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The boreal aces did have a very stiff inner sole. I modified many peoples aces by gently lifting the front pig skin liner and then cutting excess cardboard liner to the arch area.
The modification made the shoe both torsional more flexible and lateral. It then became a very good climbing shoe with good sensitivity through the shoe to your feet.
People .... you need to learn the art of improvising. Now a days people are so dull headed.
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Sioux Juan
Big Wall climber
Costa Mexico
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Korean knockoffs 25 or so years ago
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Jacob
Trad climber
yucky valley
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my current ones.... they have no padding on the inside and smell like a skunk died in them (or worse! )
soon as their soul is gone they are getting the boot
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Mimi
Trad climber
Seattle
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LOL! I remember those Korean shoes.
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Sioux Juan
Big Wall climber
Costa Mexico
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I found the Korean shoes in a army surplus for $2 a pair ......took home 5 pairs then threw them away.
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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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Lowe Hummingbirds
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Ezra
Trad climber
WA, NC
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Anything made by Mad Rock!!!
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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I had a pair of the black and yellow San Marco climbing shoes in the mid-eighties--God, did they suck.
Curt
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blackbird
Trad climber
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A pair of high heels that I wore for my junior prom... I swore off of uncomfortable shoes after that night!!!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Those cub scout themed, yellow and blue high tops that Johnny W liked, and sold what were those? a regular, big name shoe,lots of people liked 'em.
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john hansen
climber
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I was in the sixth grade and had just moved to a new town. My mom got me a pair of those side zip black boots,like something Tom Jones or Englebert was wearing.. we are talking Dweeb shoes. Not good for a new kid.
They lasted one day before I went back to my old beat up converse tennies.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Airwalks.... I only put them on when I go weedwakin'.
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fareastclimber
Trad climber
Hong Kong & Wales
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Boreal Pyros (6 years old or so). F*#king horrible shoes! Even 2 sizes smaller they stretched out like a loose granny with use and were swish-swashing around my feet... not to mention their crappy rubber would barely stick on anything...
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golsen
Social climber
kennewick, wa
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Nobody said EB's?
My guess is some of you sill have fond memories of sore feet.
But I would second the Merrels. They did not help my climbing out. Those green PA's I had were not very good either.
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john hansen
climber
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I remember many pianful days in EBs but they were also my best climbing days.
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junior
Trad climber
Modesto. CA
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RR,s of course the only pair I could fine was a size and a half to big. But the rubber was terrible, I was better off with my Vasque hiking boots.
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john hansen
climber
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Whats weed walking ? Going to check your crop?
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sketchy
Trad climber
Vagrant
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When I first started climbing the Boreal stingers had just come out. The sport geek at the nearist climbing store informed me that I needed to size them extremly tight. He actually suggested I buy a pair that I couldnt get into in the store, soak them in a bucket of water over night, then stretch them over my feet with pliers. I didnt do this but for the next year or two I thrashed my up 5.6-5.8 trad climbs in shoe hell.
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Mr_T
Trad climber
Somewhere, CA
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Worst Shoes Ever - Boreal Aces.
Rubber wouldn't stick to a horizontal sidewalk. Sole split open after two day's use. Ripped blisters into my heels.
(Best shoes ever - Boreal Vector, so likely issue w/ Aces was crap shoe, not fit. Also love 5.10 Ascents.)
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JAK
climber
The Souf
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For me it was Mad Rock Mugens.
Nothing wrong with the performance of the shoe (it could've stood to've been a bit stiffer), but they fell apart in about 3 months, 2 days a week of climbing.
Not impressive.
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Fluoride
Trad climber
California somewhere
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I bought a pair of Mad Rocks right when the first came out. Man, those things were pieces of crap. I've heard they've improved over the years but my experience early on turned me off from that brand.
I eventually traded them to a local guy in Huaraz, Peru in exchange for a couple of local climbing club chalk bags and a hearty glass of Pisco sour. He was thrilled to have "modern" climbing shoes and I was happy to be rid of them.
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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My first pair 1991 - 5.10 Summits.
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oldcragger
Trad climber
Truckee,CA
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Kamet Joshua Trees...with the steel shank?!
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