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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Nov 15, 2012 - 03:56pm PT
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Cosmic,
I see that Mountain Gear has Grandstones on sale now. Do you find that they run true to size and width?
Thanks.
John
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Nov 15, 2012 - 04:13pm PT
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Thanks, Russ. Unfortunately, I need the smaller sizes that Mountain Gear still has in inventory.
john
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Apr 16, 2013 - 03:38pm PT
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My boy swung by recently for a few days and as part of the trip he made me give him a belay, which was excruciating with 2 torn rotator cuffs, and also go to REI so he could return something. While there he drug me up to the "climbing" area to try on the new Dean Potter sponsered 5.10 high top Anasasis. I want to say that they look fantastic. The price had me crying as much as the earlier belaying did:-) $170 and they were not discounting off that.
Sizing, you definitely want to try these on before you buy them, they run real small. I'm a 8.5-9 street shoe and a 10 was real, real snug on me. The lad is the same street shoe size but he got his foot shoehorned into a 9. As I age I have less tolerant for that whle tight shoe bullshit -your results truly will vary.
If I was still getting vertical mileage and not sitting on my ass till I heal up and also didn't already own pairs of JB's, Grandstones and TC Pros, I'd be on these like a fly on sh#t. If you are in the market for a pair of hightops, I'd put these and the TC Pros on the list to look at. Climbing reviews the 5.10 and the Evolv Astromans as well. Their plaudids are so worthless as to almost not be worth reading. Every shoe is wonderful. Guess they don't want to put the truth up and have a good advertise walk. Regardless, here it is. http://www.climbing.com/gear/fall-foot-frenzy/ Is anyone getting out on the new Evolv Astromans? They kind of remind me of Fires and look comfortable.
[img]http://www.evolvsports.com/shop/images/products/preview/evl0141.jpg/img]
Matty has a real good comparison of some of them here: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1996613&msg=1996682#msg1996682
Maybe it's time for Chrismac to get all these hightops checked out side by side and put it up on the gear review section.
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