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Luc and I recently had our climbing shoes resoled at Kumpfy Shoes in Canmore, and were quite impressed with the results. Mine were a pair of Scarpa Force X’s, and Luc’s are the Moccasyms. Both pairs had lots of life left in the upper part of the shoe, but sharp limestone had eaten away almost all of the rubber on the bottom, robbing us of our edging power!
At $45 per shoe, the cost of a resole is about 1/3 the cost of an entirely new pair, so to my frugal mind it was well worth it to get that much more life out of the shoes. They climbed very well, the new rubber was really sticky with good edging, and the new sole was very smoothly contoured into the rest of the shoe.
The guy in the store was quite knowledgeable, and honest about what could realistically be repaired or not. If you are thinking of resoling your shoes, do it before you eat into the rubber on the toe rand!
They are also considering having a weekly shoe pick up at some of the Calgary (to be confirmed), which would be pretty convenient.
The next time my shoes run out of rubber before the uppers are worn out, I’ll be heading back there.
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On July 8 Susan, Vi, Felipe, Tiffany, Ping and Sheena set off to the Columbia Icefields. Since the intention of this trip was to transfer knowledge among the participants, this trip report will relate our lessons to you dear reader. Your humble scribe Sheena is very new to alpine climbing and therefore gladly soaked in the wonderful collective knowledge. Before […]
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