Favorite crack climbing shoes?!

can we get 3 pages on this highly abused topic?

mobley wrote:can we get 3 pages on this highly abused topic?

Can we get an admin to interrupt this rational and mostly informative thread with their condescending opinion?

How's about you just keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything positive to add to the conversation? You're an admin for crissake. Act like one! With all the bullshit editing censoring, deleting and banning that's been going on around here the last couple months you'd think this kind of shit wouldn't be coming DIRECTLY from the admins of this site.

I guess guideline #1 only applies to non-admins eh?

Drake Pregnall wrote:I really love the 5.10 Copperheads. Pretty thin toe profile with lots of rubber on the top of the shoe too. imageshack.us/photo/my-imag…

I have Copperheads. Great for hand sized cracks, but definately suck for any edging. I've gotten a lot of life out of mine, but for those routes that have partial cracks and have some edging in them, not the best trad shoe.

haha i'm with mobley on this one... i mean, another shoe thread... how about, get some fucking shoes and go climbing, when you figure out what you like and don't like... buy more shoes!

plus mobley is the admin for CT... that's like... the bottom of the admin totem pole

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S Denny wrote:haha i'm with mobley on this one... i mean, another shoe thread... how about, get some fucking shoes and go climbing, when you figure out what you like and don't like... buy more shoes!

Yeah, seriously! It's not like climbing shoes change constantly and climbers might want to discuss the experiences that other climbers have had with various different models. OMG! I mean WTF, do you think this is a climbing website or something!

Sorry that it bothers you that some people like to talk about shoes, and ropes, and springy clippy things.

I still think it's bullshit that an admin on this site is dropping snarky and totally inappropriate comments in threads that are about what MP claims to be about. Ya know, sharing info about climbing. Threads that were truckin along perfectly fine I might add until Senior Mobley decided to spray bomb it and make a very thinly veiled assertion that we're all a bunch of idiot noobs and insinuating that we were doing something wrong for sharing info about climbing shoes.

Thanks for that, much appreciated.

S Denny wrote:plus mobley is the admin for CT... that's like... the bottom of the admin totem pole

lol, I must disagree though, its only close to the bottom. I'd have to give MD, Iowa, Kansas and Ohio the bottom spots.

I'm sorry Leroy Jenkins, continue your super awesome discussion on your favorite shoes! I know you just joined up a month ago so maybe you dont know that you could dig up about 10 more threads on the best crack shoe if you really want more info. Just type 'crack shoes' in the little search boxy thingy in the upper right corner.

mobley wrote: I'm sorry Leroy Jenkins, continue your super awesome discussion on your favorite shoes! I know you just joined up a month ago so maybe you dont know that you could dig up about 10 more threads on the best crack shoe if you really want more info. Just type 'crack shoes' in the little search boxy thingy in the upper right corner.

Thanks again for being a condescending prick!

I might have just recently joined but I'm not a fucking idiot. Did you even bother to read my last post?

Why do you insist on being such douche?

Sorry Leroy... I think Mobley's kinda funny and justified in this situation. OP gets an F on his crack shoe research project. A simple search with the words "crack shoe" (that's what this is about, right?) yielded these results. Four different threads that had "crack shoe" in the title:
mountainproject.com/v/crack…

mountainproject.com/v/good-…

mountainproject.com/v/best-…

mountainproject.com/v/looki…

And here are a bunch of other threads about shoes that incidentally have crack climbing shoe info:
mountainproject.com/v/best-…

mountainproject.com/v/trad-…

mountainproject.com/v/whats…

mountainproject.com/v/climb…

Not trying to be a jerk, but MountainProject is a great resource! Use it. If you're asking noobish questions like this, it's probably already been covered. So do us all a favor and do a quick search. Resurrect the thread if there's a nuance that hasn't been covered.
Point is it took less than the time to type your post than to find a thread specifically about crack climbing shoes.

Personally, I enjoy adding new drivel to these antiquated topics. New climbing shoes come out all the time too. If seeing unnecessary climbing talk gets you all heated and frothy, you should probably avoid climbing websites altogether and go administrate your own blog ;).

+1,000,000 Mythos!

Leroy,

The fact that you are the only one using abusive language doesn't help your case much. Try toning it down a bit.

And I've read your abuse comments. Sarcasm isn't neccessarily being a jerk. Just because some of us choose to volunteer our time to keep our local areas well represented on this site doesn't mean that we aren't free to voice our own oppinions and crack a joke now and then.

If you'll notice, I go over board pretty often. But then someone will call me out, usually in a more mature manner than calling me a "condesending prick," and I usually end up apologizing.

Maybe try to hold back a little next time you choose to comment on the behavior of an Admin, or anyone else for that matter.

Old Custer wrote:Personally, I enjoy adding new drivel to these antiquated topics. New climbing shoes come out all the time too.

That's the point! There are lots of these "antiquated topics" already on this site. I guess it's the scholar in me but I like it when people reply to the copious amount of old threads rather than resurrecting an old topic in the form of a new thread. Just my 2cents.

Nick Stayner wrote: That's the point! There are lots of these "antiquated topics" already on this site. I guess it's the scholar in me but I like it when people reply to the copious amount of old threads rather than resurrecting an old topic in the form of a new thread. Just my 2cents.

Wow, what a drag for you! Somehow I sense you will constantly be disappointed by the level of scholarship here.

Old Custer wrote: Wow, what a drag for you! Somehow I sense you will constantly be disappointed by the level of scholarship here.

Sometimes I'm surprised though, and that sort of makes up for the disappointment.

johnL wrote: By suggesting a 20 year old shoe? (They might no be 20 but were definitely at the REI when I started climbing in 1996.

mythos...jack of all trades, master of none.

johnL wrote: By suggesting a 20 year old shoe? (They might no be 20 but were definitely at the REI when I started climbing in 1996.

I think they're 20 - I saw the 20-year anniversary edition at Gear Heads for $180!

Ya, Mythos are definitely doing their 20th Anniversary thing this year. They come w/ a number in them and everything (1/1000 or something like that). Saw a vid about it.

Are they the longest running climbing shoe out there?

johnL wrote: By suggesting a 20 year old shoe? (They might no be 20 but were definitely at the REI when I started climbing in 1996.

Seriously? I would have thought the whole paragraph of dismissive snark preceding that suggestion would have been a veritable neon lit marquee advertising my sarcastic intent. Note: more winky faces for Angry's benefit ;).

Old Custer wrote:Personally, I enjoy adding new drivel to these antiquated topics. New climbing shoes come out all the time too.

On that note...

I used to do all thin cracks in Moccs. The new Supermoccs are definitely superior. I kid you not - they make the feet in green camalots feel the way I used to feel in red camalots.

One other thing... Mobley, it's no wonder you're bitter, being stuck in CT, LOL. Certainly I can see why you'd have nothing to say about cracks. Good thing you're at least able to feel superior to a few other states - obviously that's important to you.

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