I love the way these shoes fit for my very wide feet, it's my main go-to approach shoes. But the orange cord used for the shoe laces and the heel loops do not last at all, they break well before the shoes needs retiring. On shorter multipitches where I don't carry a pack, I like to clip my shoes to my harness but would never do that with these lest I lose my shoes due to cord breakage. My current TX4 had 5 weeks of use before the heel cord on my right foot broke... luckily it didn't happen on route.
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