Richard Pontvert – “Robbins Boots”
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I still have my pair from the early 1970’s with Yosemite granite dust ground into them.
I have mine as well. Bought mine in 1978 from Bob Culp at the Boulder Mountaineer shortly after he opened that new store on “The Hill”. By that time, the rigid, big wall shoes like the Yosemite RR and Vasque Ascender were falling out of favor with climbers, but I didn’t care, that bright blue suede was just too cool. Mr. Culp was probabaly thinking, “wannabe climber – has no idea what he is buying, but I guess I’ll have to take his money” and he would have been more than half right. Several years later I did a dumb thing and had them resoled with smooth rubber and had the steel shank removed. After having them resoled I never used them much. I got a new pair 5.10 or something and then got married, started having kids and climbing became less of a passion and barely a pastime. Moved to Madison and got the kids involved in climbing at Devil’s Lake and Gibralter Rock. I still have the shoes, they are in good shape and have been trying to get them restored to the their original condition. I have sent emails to Paraboot who owns Galibier/Pontvert to see if they would/could sell me a set of size 12 soles and heels. The responses I got were in French and based on my 2 years of French while at CU, and I think they translated as, “Why are you writing to us in English, you stupid American?” Although it now looks like Paraboot has gotten out of the outdoor footwear market, just a couple of years ago they were selling a version of the Yosemite RR as a casual shoe. It looked similar but you could tell that it wasn’t meant for anything other than going shopping. And those things were super expensive!!