Not for Indian Creek

By GoodGuinness Ranked #328 - Rock Climbing Shoes November 1, 2009

These were my first shoe for sport climbing and bouldering, which did the job, though now I use other shoes and almost never touch these for sport climbing or bouldering. I brought these shoes with me to Indian Creek because a lot of people were telling me how the Mythos is a good trad shoe. I wore them for one day and then ended up borrowing an old pair of Calculators from someone for the rest of the trip. I felt like the soles on the Mythos were too soft for the splitter cracks in Indian Creek. My feet were in pain the entire time while climbing, not necessarily because the shoes were uncomfortable, more like the shoes were so soft and sensitive that I could feel every edge of the crack as I stuck my foot in. I haven't had a chance to really use these on granite cracks except for a couple of 5.6/5.7 multi-pitch routes in Yosemite, but they felt fine on those (obviously not very technical routes). Next time I go to IC, will probably leave these at home.

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