YardSaleDad
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Greg said:
I gotta take you up Breakneck Ridge one day
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What Do You Wear Hiking?
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Where is that?YardSaleDad said:I gotta take you up Breakneck Ridge one day
YardSaleDad
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riverc0il
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you might be surprised how well a low cut trail runner holds out. i have worn my low cuts on numerous presidential hikes (haven't gotten to caps ridge yet, but it is in the works). but it is all personal preference.Greg said:
bigbog
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.....
Make that ~95% is with a upper Nubuck & GoreTexed: Montrail Torre GTX is a good fit and provides protection (mostly from the fist-sized, cut rocks at the side of woodland roads) and support(they seemed to have caught their production problem early on...back in 03/04?), ..I'm mostly doing 3mi or less..they've been very comfortable at this length trip, as well as up the steeps of small mtns...off-trail. I do buy into YardSaleDad's thinking on support as well...and I'm still searching for that trail-runner.
Keen's sandals with hard rubberized toepiece are great for the short hike ending up in a paddle...in northern Maine summer temps where there are very few ticks and no poisonous snakes.
Make that ~95% is with a upper Nubuck & GoreTexed: Montrail Torre GTX is a good fit and provides protection (mostly from the fist-sized, cut rocks at the side of woodland roads) and support(they seemed to have caught their production problem early on...back in 03/04?), ..I'm mostly doing 3mi or less..they've been very comfortable at this length trip, as well as up the steeps of small mtns...off-trail. I do buy into YardSaleDad's thinking on support as well...and I'm still searching for that trail-runner.
Keen's sandals with hard rubberized toepiece are great for the short hike ending up in a paddle...in northern Maine summer temps where there are very few ticks and no poisonous snakes.
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cbcbd
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Then again it's all relative. I've seen plenty of "serious" AT thru-hikers wearing lots of things from going barefoot, to Tevas, to Keens, to Trail Runners, to Boots...YardSaleDad said:
SkiDog
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cbcbd said:
Ive met NUMEROUS AT Thru Hikers that started in boots only to go to trail runners or plain sneakers after the "first few" miles...last year I saw a guy wearing "walmart" velcro sneakers...couldnt have cost him more than literally $10 a pair...all I can tell you is he breezed right past me...oh this was in VT..so not "easy" hiking..
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MtnMagic
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Salomon Protrek 6 (Suede high tops) for me. It seemed like a long break-in period, now comfortable for 12 hour hiking days.
YardSaleDad
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SkiDog said:
I would be starting out with my trail runners, but the boots would be in my pack, unless it was already snowing or very muddy.
MtnMagic
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And ... in the summer I wear shorts and a t-shirt. Strangely, I have come across several completey nude hikers. Their motto: hike naked!
Assuming this was meant more for summer I posted with my typical summer boot choice.
In winter, in the White's & ADK's I wear plastics
in late fall there & winter in Catskills & Southern New England Insulated Leather Mountaineering boots
Shorter hikes, like Monadnock, Waumbek, Martha, Sugarloaf (NH) I'd wear Sneakers
The people most likely to wear sneakers are the ones that should not be wearing them usually & also the high mileage types who can get away with it.
In winter, in the White's & ADK's I wear plastics
in late fall there & winter in Catskills & Southern New England Insulated Leather Mountaineering boots
Shorter hikes, like Monadnock, Waumbek, Martha, Sugarloaf (NH) I'd wear Sneakers
The people most likely to wear sneakers are the ones that should not be wearing them usually & also the high mileage types who can get away with it.
YardSaleDad
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Mike P. said:
I hesitate to call trail runners, sneakers. For me, there is a world of difference between the two.
YSD,
If you had to call them sneakers or boots, which would you call them? (not being inflammatory, see below)
Actually I'm more curious for myself as ankles are in good shape (33.5 miles last week walking & jogging, almost 28 of it jogging) & I may look at buying a pair.
I've been up Waumbek & Monadnock last year in Sneakers (cross trainers) & Middle Sugarloaf this year in running sneakers. I've got some short hikes planned in next few weeks while will likely be more sneaker trips with a couple in boots mixed in.
Is difference in shank & sole or is padding & ankle support (as it exists in a low top shoe) better?
If you had to call them sneakers or boots, which would you call them? (not being inflammatory, see below)
Actually I'm more curious for myself as ankles are in good shape (33.5 miles last week walking & jogging, almost 28 of it jogging) & I may look at buying a pair.
I've been up Waumbek & Monadnock last year in Sneakers (cross trainers) & Middle Sugarloaf this year in running sneakers. I've got some short hikes planned in next few weeks while will likely be more sneaker trips with a couple in boots mixed in.
Is difference in shank & sole or is padding & ankle support (as it exists in a low top shoe) better?
