Friday glee thinks this is just really pretty

[rydra_wong]

The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.

It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big. Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.

N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.

To enhance this week's glee: ice climbing on a frozen waterfall at the Cascade de l'Oule in France.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Yay shoes! Whatcha get? (I am a climbing shoe geek, so always interested in hearing other people's reports.)

And alas for inconveniently-timed resets. Though at least there will be all-new things for next time.

[weirdquark]

They're Mad Rock, one of the beginner ones. I don't remember seeing the model name anywhere obvious so I don't know which one while not looking at them though I'm sure it says somewhere. They were orange and had velcro? Looking at the MadRock website, they were probably the Flash -- the store did have a model that they said was specifically a woman's shoe but it wasn't it, so probably Flash and not OnSight.

And that's about all the report I can give without getting to climb in them for an hour -- they seemed reasonably solid on the footholds on the pole and when I tried stepping up on the box-tables they had in the store using very little of my toe I was able to do so using very little of my toe, so they seem nicely stiff and solid and felt tight but not too painful for the time I had them on, which wasn't very long.

I also tried out a pair of Evols in the store but those felt uncomfortably tight and when I went up a half size still felt like they pinched in the toe even though they looked wider than the MadRocks and didn't feel as stable around the ankle so I didn't get 'em.

[rydra_wong]

when I tried stepping up on the box-tables they had in the store using very little of my toe I was able to do so using very little of my toe, so they seem nicely stiff and solid and felt tight but not too painful for the time I had them on, which wasn't very long.

I also tried out a pair of Evols in the store but those felt uncomfortably tight and when I went up a half size still felt like they pinched in the toe even though they looked wider than the MadRocks and didn't feel as stable around the ankle so I didn't get 'em.

*nods*

Sounds like you've got a really good fit for your shoe shape and size, then. Fingers crossed they break in nicely and work well for you!