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Sep 19, 2005, 7:27 AM
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I got to deal with their great customer support (Kip) for my shoes because the sole unglued badly after 6 month & I got replacement.
Very nice service so I'm returning the favor...
Now about the shoe:
I bought montrail Cruiser Delam shoes, and they are great for crack climbing AND face/slabs/gym... Like Anassazi, they edge great, smear good, and unlike them i can climb cracks and walk-off climbs. They lace-up easilly and easy also to remove. The laces are well protected from crack abrasion. The griptonite rubber is as good imho as 5-10 C4 stealth. The distinctive gray/burgundy color scheme works.
When I go outdoors, I don't need to bring my old 5.10 huecos and my 5.10 anassazi velcros anymore. I just bring this pair that does it all. And it's comfortable for multi-pitch. It is great-awesome-love it!
The shoe has some minor quirks though:
It has velcro straps to tighten the back of the foot, nice but the bucke can get in the way when jamming.
Second, the extern-side of the shoe's rand doesn't go high enough to protect the leather from jamming abrasion and wears off. \
Third, the tip is not as thin as mythos (?) shoes, which people swear by for that extra camming in the thin cracks, but I doubt those make you feel at home on slabs/face.
Fourth: It seems they'll discontinue that shoe for newer models. If Montrail is to succeed, they have to develop a couple classic shoes and not change them, to get cult following. It sucks to shop for climbing shoes. Fitting is so hard!
Recap:
This is my opinion of those shoes after 6 months of all around climbing with them: gym roped climbs, gym bouldering (a little), outdoors climbing on crags, multi-pitch, walkoffs, sandstone and granit... Those shoes work so well all around I stopped using them indoors to save them for outside.
And montrail proved to me they are a good company.
Tallking of which, they sponsored "return2sender" the movie, and it's really cool. The IC section is awesome.
Cheers!
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