You are listening to the Enormo Cast.

Alex Hondold once said that being in Black Diamond's solution harness feels like home.

And that's either a ringing endorsement from one of the best or desperate cry for help.

The Royal We here at the Norma Cast is just going to assume it's the former because the

latter is quite complicated and besides we climb in a solution too.

Not a sport harness or a trad harness,

it's the one harness that stays in my pack for everything,

because it's comfy and sveld without all the extra muckity muck.

I mean, really?

What's a full strength hall loop actually for anyone

anyone neither Smoot or Holly can tell you why you'd ever want 2,000 pounds hanging

off your ass while you're climbing.

So feel like your home in a cleanly designed, comfortable solution harness from Black Diamond.

And check out all their soft goods at black diamond equipment.com or your favorite retailer,

Black Diamond, a proud sponsor of the Norma cast.

If there's one thing the Italians understand about this world,

it's that if something ain't Baro broke, don't fix it.

And that's why Sportiva has faithfully kept its tried and true venerable classics in the line.

The Mira, the Solution, and the Testorosa still outperformed the latest flash-in-the-pan shoes out there.

And they're also still built in a European monastery by silent septogeneering craftsmen

who may or may not be lawfully entitled to six smoke breaks a day.

So when it comes to shoe performance, what's it going to be the latest or the greatest?

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