[pct-l] Good shoes

[Kathryn Doiron]

Patagonia makes the Bly for women and it is dubbed a boot but is actually a
stiff shoe.  Breaks in faster then a boot but needs waterproofing.  The
footplate is quite stiff and is great for walking on rocks.  Not so great if
you have really wide feet, and they run a size small so go up one size.

Also check out some of Inov*'s stuff, a few of their shoes have very stiff
footplates as well, I think it is the Rocliff line.

I have tried the Bly and liked them except for the narrowness of the toes, I
haven't tried the Inov8's.

kathryn

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Bill Burge <bill at burge.com> wrote:

> I'm torn both ways. I love boots but I recognize the pluses of trail
> runners.
>
> I also had a problem with sore feet from trail 'irregularities'.
>
> Look for trail runners with "rock plates" or forefoot protection or
> other wording like that.
>
> UKGear Desert shoe is an example and Inov-8 had a version, and some
> models of better known shoes like New Balance.
>
> Bill Burge
> Typoed on my iPhone!
>
> On May 7, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Amanda L Silvestri <aslive at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I have tried hiking with shoes but what I have found is that for my
> > feet I need a sturdy sole, more like what I find in a boot.  In
> > shoes I seem to feel every little rock and my feet become quite sore
> > before I have hiked five miles.  Anyone have ideas as to how I can
> > reduce the weight to a shoe while maintaining the sturdiness of a
> > boot sole?
> >
> > Shepherd
> >
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