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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:29 pm
by Shamis
1 for slabs. 1 for super steep stuff.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:46 pm
by pigsteak
Shamis wrote:1 for slabs. 1 for super steep stuff.
when have you EVER done those two things in the same day?
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:48 pm
by bcombs
pigsteak wrote:Shamis wrote:1 for slabs. 1 for super steep stuff.
when have you EVER done those two things in the same day?
Twinkie? It's a neat trick to change shoes mid-route.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:28 pm
by FujManiac
tutugirl wrote:Two pairs of the same kind of shoes, one pair broken in and a newer pair I am breaking in on the warm ups...
This is what I've recently adapted as doing. Then by the time the other pair is wearing out, you have another pair that already fits comfortably. It's a nice cycle
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:46 pm
by JR
Nelly says it best. "I need two perz"
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:23 pm
by steep4me
One pair that I can wear without crying and one that I use on steep redpoint goes. (while crying, of course)
The most evil thing at the Red is having to climb the slabby ramp at the Darkside (in painful steep-climbing shoes) to get to the painful steep climbing above! Those routes really require two pairs of shoes.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:41 pm
by ReachHigh
tutugirl wrote:Two pairs of the same kind of shoes, one pair broken in and a newer pair I am breaking in on the warm ups...
dido, that or a pair of comfort shoes.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:12 pm
by woodchuck008
2 at least. Comfy pair for trad, good ones for sport. And an awfully painful but high performance pair for those special moments.
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:46 pm
by pigsteak
so do people really get out of their car, and have no idea if it is a sport or trad day? and do people really do both in the same day? I mean, yeah, I might clip a few bolts while at a trad crag, but I sure don't need my "sending" sport shoes, since the day is all about trad, and not projecting a sport line....
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:34 pm
by krampus
my hardest send to this date has been in my crappies comfiest pair of shoes I have ever owned. I seriously doubt that I changing shoe will bump me up a notch. comfort and price are what I am about. And yes piggy, sometimes I do jump on hard sport on a trad day, its not like we have big wall day long climbs at the red that take up so much time that I must choose one or the other.