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If anyone has any furhter Q's for me please feel free to email me directly or call me, it will be much faster this way. I don't have a lot of time to check this site due to large amounts of work and a new baby in the house. Thanks for all of the kind words, hope to fix your gear soon. Matt Owner, Mountain Soles Outdoor Footwear & Fabric Reapir 1623 SE 12th Portland m,w,th,f 11am-6pm 503-236-0785 mountainsoles.com

drC, You'd be better of just buying a pair of AT boots. This is not a resole (or new-sole) that we would ever do for many reasons. AT or mountaineering boots would do the job better. Matt.

Thanks for having us do your shoes, I just found this web site yesterday when I did a google search for "Mountain Soles" and it came up with this thread of posts about Mountain Soles. So I thought I better get on here and let folks hear things from my end. Thanks, Matt Mountainsoles.com

Sorry you feel that you were given incorrect info. As far as I am concerned the Endureo is quite posslibly one of the poorest quality shoes ever made. The enduro is a "board lasted" shoe. That means that the shoe is built on a board. The board in the Enduro breaks down more than any other board lasted shoe on the market, to the point that is disintagrates into nothing. The rubber is glued to this board, and your foot rests directly on top of this board. Thus, when board breaks down there is nothing left to glue a new sole onto. The board can be replaced but most resolers no longer do it becasue it is very labor intesive, can change the shape of the shoe (especially if you need rand work at the same time), and we can't make any money doing it. For the cost to resole, rerand and replace the midsole you could go buy a new pair of Enduros. The enduro is made very differently than any slipper on the market, slippers are "slip lasted". On slippers, there is no board, there is a paper or plastic stiffener. If the stiffener is disintagrated then we usually still have a layer of leather inside the shoe to glue the new soles to. Not all shoes are made the same. As for sending them to Red Rock Resoles, Jules died in a motorcycle accident (nearly 2-3 years ago?), and Mountain Soles ended up finishing many shoes that Jules was in the process of resoling. Red Rock Resoles no longer exists. Hope this clears things up. Matt Mountain Soles 503-236-0785

Nate, thanks for the email and new post here about Mountain Soles. Just so everyone knows here are some facts about Mountain Soles... 1. Mountain Soles was sold in Dec. 1999 by Bill McKinney to myself. 2. At that time mountian soles was moved from Trout Lake WA to my house in Portland OR. 3. Durring the first 6 months of 2000, I had Bill's employee Beth working with me to teach me how to resole. She resoled most all of the rock shoes those first 6 months I owned the business. I'll be the first to admit that the qualtiy of resoles that came out of my shop in the second half of 2000 were not that good. It has been 4.5 years since then and many folks consider my resoles to be the best they have had done. 4. In August of 2003 I moved the shop out of the garage and into a retail store front in SE PDX. I now have regular hours when customers can come talk with me about their repairs. (m,w,th,f 11-6) 5. I have always worked hard to make my customers happy. If a customer is not happy, they need to come talk to me so that I can try and resolve the problem with them. Thanks, Matt Menely Owner Mountain Soles Outdoor Footwear and Fabric Repair 1623 SE 12th PDX, OR 97214 503-236-0785 www.mtnsoles.com