5.10 are bad

[emperor]

Ever since I started climbing, I've used 5.10 Spire shoes - they're fully laced and so suit my wonky feet. From time to time, I've tried to find other shoes, but to no avail.

Anyhow, I've finally worn holes in the current pair, and went online to buy a new pair, to discover that 5.10 have discontinued them. Woe!

I gather the Anasazi Guide is in some sense the descentant of the Spire, but no-where in town sells them. I may yet get a pair online and expect to return them if they don't fit (but that's expensive and faffsome). So after a rather frustrating lunchtime, I now have a pair of La Sportiva Tarantulaces by the advanced selection criteria of "only pair that will actually go on my feet"; I'll find out tomorrow if I can actually climb in them...

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Mind you, having bought some new shoes, I should probably at least give them a bit of a go :-)

Oh, definitely -- if nothing else, you need shoes to wear while your other ones are off being re-soled.

And having at least two pairs of shoes means you can designate one as your comfy pair while the others are the new tight technical pair, or whatever.

But the beauty of re-soling is that for half the price of a new pair of shoes, you get your perfectly-broken-in old shoes but with fresh rubber. Which is a pretty excellent combination.