15 years ago, after consistently lobbing from the crux of Midnight Lightning in Yosemite onto an old square of carpet, Mark Katz decided to buy one of those new bouldering crash pads he'd seen a few people carrying.
"After years of abuse the foam in my first pad 'died'. Metolius have remained at the cutting edge of pad design and innovation - to an extent leading the way in the development of quality equipment for a facet of the sport that has exploded in popularity over the last twenty years - so I decided to test their Boss Hogg Crash Pad."
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