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General Climbing Discussion

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Shoes ? 16-Jul-2002 At 8:49:05 AM The Blond Gecko
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Even after I bought my first pair of climbing shoes, at least half the time (almost all the time on anything below an 18) I chose to climb barefoot. I found that after the first few (rather painful) weeks, I built up a nice set of calluses on my feet - big ones down alongside the big toes, and smaller ones on the opposite side. I found that I could edge on these almost as well as I could on climbing shoes - down to edges a couple of millimetres wide. Smearing wasn't so crash hot, though. Of course, this was all at Kangaroo Point, with its "consumer style" smooth rock - I doubt that I'd do anywhere near as well on coarse granite.

Tristan
"On climb, belay when ready"

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