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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Climbing, a mountain, Canada.
Interest: climbing and spraying
Posts: 16,172
If you have to climb steeply, it is a big help, I find.
Just for tromping around on trails it doesn't make much difference. But getting up a snowcone to the basse of an ice climb, it is noticeably easier with the heel lift up.
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