Outdoor Rock Climbing : How to Clean Rock Climbing Shoes
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Posted by admin Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010
Categories: Indoor Rock Climbing Gear
Tags: Clean, Climbing, Outdoor, Rock, Shoes
We were doiing some shoe “doping” with our Fire’s (alcohol cleaning)
to prep them before doing dificult friction climbs in the early 80’s.
It is true that this creates a temporary “hyper sticky”condition to the rubber
although, we found that repeated teatments dried out the rubber causing
it to become crumbly and ultimately less sticky.