Best Women's Climbing Shoes
Designed for intermediate climbers with an aggressive edge, the TarantuLace features a rugged rubber heel rand, grippy FriXion RS rubber soles, and an asymmetrical RN45 shoe shape, lending plenty of grip, support, and sensitivity to feel out the tiniest micro-edges. Leather.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I am a beginner and they work a million times better, and feel so much more comfortable, then the shoes I was renting from the gym for the first month."
"EPIC CLIMBING SHOE!!!"
"These are perfect and fit to size."
"These are my first climbing shoes!"
"I love this pair and apparently, lots of other people in my gym love this pair too because I have seen various women wearing them."
"That took about 4 or 5 climbing sessions to complete."
"It's better to buy shoes a little smaller for Rick climbing, you use your big toe so all the weight needs to adjust to your big toe, not be evened out."
Perforated synthetic upper.TRAX Rubber. TRAX XT high friction rubber is formulated to be the highest performing rubber on the market. With this goal in mind, evolv and TRAX Rubber have developed eco-TRAX, a recycled content high friction rubber compound and started using it on products beginning Fall 2008, making evolv the first climbing shoe company to use a more environmentally friendly rubber on climbing shoes. Synthetic.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great shoes for kids."
"I am in between size 8.5 and 9 normally for sneakers and the 8.5 was too small (even though climbing shoes are supposed to fit small)."
"Bought as a birthday gift for my daughter in law."
"I went up a couple sizes for comfort to climb outdoors for hours."
"The fit was somewhat as expected, but my toes hit the edge in a way i can't wear them for too long."
"I tried to put them on my foot and caught a cramp in my arch from trying to squeeze into them...lol."
"SMALL - Having read the other reviews saying this, we ordered a half-size larger, but then needed an additional WHOLE size up."
"The product's quality was as expected, but I returned it because it was way smaller than expected."
FEATURES of the La Sportiva Women's Solution Shoe Patented P3 permanent power platform retains downturned shape for the life of the shoe Patented lock harness system creates a support system which wraps the foot and offers a more secure fit while heel hooking Molded 3D heel cup Highly adjustable fast lacing system allows you to tailor the hook and loop closure for a personalized fit New marbled P3 rands: Each pair has unique marbling Vibram? Patented lock harness system creates a support system which wraps the foot and offers a more secure fit while heel hooking.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Great shoe and love the closure!"
"Excellent!!!"
"I love them!"
"Love at first climb...I don't know how to dance on a wall without them...love love love!"
"That is the price of really good climbing shoes though I guess, but I'll stick with my beginner shoes that I can walk around in for hours."
"Reasons I love this shoe: * The big toe on the shoe extends out to a bit of a point of hard rubber. * For something this aggressive they're actually not uncomfortable on the wall - the toe box is actually more comfortable than most other things I've tried on, and the unique holding mechanism (which is almost like a slipper with a lace velcroed over it) works wonderfully well for keeping the shoe in place. Reasons you might not want this shoe: Every reason I have to say 'you might not want this shoe' is going to hold for pretty much all hyper-aggressive shoes as a matter of degree - please note these criticisms are from the point of view of someone who has mostly climbed in beginner/intermediate shoes and who test-drove about four pairs of more aggressive shoes before settling on this one. Basically, trying to walk flat in these things varies between awkward and painful - a bit worse than some of the other aggressive shoes I tried on, at least out of the box. * The fit for the heel on these shoes, while better than several other aggressive shoes I tried, still cuts in a bit at the back of my ankle near the top. The things that make these shoes awesome (small pocket toe-holds, tiny foot chips, difficult heel-hooks, uses for toe-hooks) won't even show up on most routes until the higher 5.10s / lower 5.11s - until then you really get nothing for your discomfort. * It might, however, be a very good 'my first aggressive shoe' if you're willing to spend the money owing to its excellence at all the things an aggressive shoe is supposed to do combined it's surprising comfort on the wall."
"Can't really review, as the size was smaller than expected (compared to my current La Sportivas)."
Best Men's Climbing Shoes
Designed for intermediate climbers with an aggressive edge, the TarantuLace features a rugged rubber heel rand, grippy FriXion RS rubber soles, and an asymmetrical RN45 shoe shape, lending plenty of grip, support, and sensitivity to feel out the tiniest micro-edges. Leather.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I love the lace design which I have always trusted over velcro but that is just a personal choice."
"May be smart to include both euro and american measurements in the ad - I had to go to a different website to make sure I chose the right size."
"Husband says that they fit well and "comfortable" (as comfortable it can be a climbing shoe)."
"They ended up being just slightly looser than I thought they would be, I'd recomend ordering a 1/2 size down on the EU size chart."
"Initially felt a little small, but then stretched to the point that they feel slightly large now."
"I clicked on the size chart and ordered what the European size was for a USA 10."
"I wear mens US size 10.5 shoes."
"Feels slippery, more slippery than my ten year old pair."