[pct-l] shoe sizing, cont.....

[Yoshihiro Murakami]

Thanks, VVR. I an using hiker's English, because I learned to speak
with hikers. My NIKIA is a very tiny one. When it puts sideways,
qwerty keyboad appears.Now, I have an only very tiny dictionary.

2010/8/25, Vermilion Valley Resort <pct-l at edisonlake.com>:
> Writing all of that, in English, on a little NOKIA?!?  Hiro, your
> English is getting better every day!
>
>
> Yoshihiro Murakami wrote:
>> In short, there are following characeristics:
>> boots....rigid sole, ankle fixation
>> Shoes...soft sole, ankle is free
>> The fit is important problem for the both kind.  So, we can eliminate
>> unfitted boots or shoes problem.
>>
>> Boots restrict ankle movements, then forces us to change gait style,
>> and we must use upper large musles. And we cannot perceive the details
>> of surface structure of earth.---depending these characteristics,
>> boots are suitable for heavy load, and long distance walking. Some
>> people cannot change their walking style, then they hate boots.
>>
>> Shoes are light and free. We feel the detail structure of earth from
>> foot, and we can walk as usual, we need not change our walking style,
>> so many people like shoes. --- But, we feel fatigue, since the sole
>> are soft, me must pay attention to the surface structure of the trail.
>> Ankle is free, so we must use the calf mustle. Then, shoes are
>> suitable for light load and for the strong calf person.
>>
>> There are many varibles concerning footware. But, basically these are
>> simple.
>> Imagin the animals. The feet of Ox, cow, deer, horse, etc are as like
>> wearing boots, they are the long distance runners. And the feet of
>> cheetah,  mountain lion, etc looks alike wearing shoes, five finger
>> shoes. They are fast, but many are not the long distance runners,
>> because they use all musles at once. The small muscle is easily
>> exhausted. The cheetah is the exception.
>> The backpacking boots are the intermittent category between running
>> shoes and mountain boots.
>> ---I am writing by timy mobile phone NOKIA , now in LA.
>>
>> 2010/7/29, Tortoise<Tortoise73 at charter.net>:
>>
>>> A couple of comments:
>>>
>>> When I first started hiking and backpacking I wore boots -- first pair
>>> were
>>> Piveta Muir Trail (relatively light weight) and then later a different
>>> one.
>>> My feet grew both longer and wider wearing the boots to the point that
>>> the
>>> boots were uncomfortable.
>>>
>>> The hiker I took from Scott Mountain Summit because of foot problems
>>> (blisters) said he was wearing boots. He had on a new pair that he had
>>> not
>>> broken in for lack of time, but the boots were the same make and model as
>>> his previous boots that never gave him problems.
>>>
>>> Fit may not be everything in boots and shoes for hiking, but it's very
>>> important.
>>>
>>> Tortoise
>>>
>>> <>  Because truth matters!<>
>>>
>>> On 07/26/10 15:48, Yoshihiro Murakami wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Ned
>>>>
>>>> This may be the same discussion carried out in Feb. 17.
>>>> I also have no experience of feet enlargement. At first, I thought
>>>> this phenomena can be observed among only PCT thru-hikers, but I think
>>>> there is a latent variable.---shoes vs boots.
>>>>
>>>> Many people who asserts the feet enlargement wears shoes, but I and
>>>> Ned wear boots, and report no enlargement. ( I am  60 years old, so
>>>> very old guy ). My Japanese friend who hiked from Tuolumne to Yosemite
>>>> reported feet enlargement and blisters and he wore shoes.  I wore
>>>> heavy duty boots last summer, and I hiked thru JMT with no trouble.
>>>>
>>>> This summer,  I have selected ASOLO Expert GV GTX Mountaineering Boots
>>>> and heavy duty pack( Mountain Hardwear Solitude, with heavy camera
>>>> http://psycho01.edu.u-toyama.ac.jp/SolitudeNow.jpg ), because I must
>>>> guide my wife from Tuolumne to VVR, and I must carry 14 days foods.
>>>> (28-30 Kg : ca 60 pound )
>>>>
>>>>
>>> [following material deleted]
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>


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Hiro    ( Yoshihiro Murakami )
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Backpacking for 30 years in Japan
2009 JMT, the first America.
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