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The Technician and Technician Leather are light approach shoes with sticky soles which are precise for climbing. While they lack the wet ground grip and overall support you might want for UK scrambles and mountain crag approaches, in their element - dry, rocky terrain - we think they'd be ideal.

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Was just looking at the BD Approach shoe page. https://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/shop/approach-shoes/ Are you sure what you are calling the Technician isn't the Mission XP? https://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/product/mission-xp-leather-mens... 

I think you might be right! The images for the Technician:

https://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/product/technician-ms-approach-...

don't look like those in the review, whereas the Mission XP Leather defiantly does!

To make it weirder, the shoe on your link doesn't appear on the list of all approach shoes on my link above!? 

Hi Toby and Galpinos,

Thanks for the comments. I was ready to put my hands up and say 'thanks for correcting my mistake'. However, I then looked up the Technician Leather and they do seem to be exactly the shoe I have in this review:

https://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en_GB/product/technician-leather-mens...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o35fFmnaCiU&ab_channel=BlackDiamondEqui... - it's even in a video (albeit in yellow)!

I think you're right about what I've called the 'Technician' though, these are in fact the Mission XP. I'll get that updated now.