[pct-l] shoe recommendations

[CWillett at pierce.ctc.edu (Chris Willett)]

I'd stay with the normal sized shoes and forget about the larger ones unless your feet change.  That is, don't worry about a potential problem until it comes up.  Then deal with it.  Think about actual running shoes, rather than trail runners from Campo to Mojave.  After the last two summers, I wrote brief reviews of the shoes I used and posted them to whiteblaze.net.  You can find them by going to the following links:

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-2382

and

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5634

If I were setting out from Campo this year, I'd probably bring a pair of Brooks Beast shoes.

Suge




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> From: 	pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net on behalf of David Plotnikoff
> Sent: 	Thursday, March 3, 2005 12:56 PM
> To: 	pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: 	[pct-l] shoe recommendations
> 
> Hello from a longtime list lurker and section hiker.
> 
> Just got the most wonderful piece of e-mail today: REI says my annual
> dividend is $225 (don't ask how it got that high) and on top of that
> they're throwing in 20 percent off any item.
> 
> Which brings me to trail shoes. I normally wear a NB 801 or 807 in a 9.
> I've been a bit perplexed by the lack of consensus on the list on whether
> my feet will need a larger size in the desert. There seems to be a great
> divergence of opinion on this. I've hiked from Whitney to Willamette Pass
> w/o a change in foot size, but I realize the desert is a whole other kettle
> of salsa.
> 
> With the offer of *free shoes* dangled over my head, I'm considering this
> strategy: Go out of Campo with my NB 807s. Send a size 10 pair of shoes in
> my Warner Springs bounce box and make the final call then, after six trail
> days.
> 
> So which shoes? I'm OK with the 807s, but would like to hear people's
> experiences both good and bad with PCT use of:
> 
> Brooks Cascadia
> 
> Montrail Hardrock
> 
> Montrail Highline
> 
> Vasque Velocity
> 
> 
> Sorry to burn up bandwidth on this, but the online reviews of trail running
> shoes (with the exception of ultra-running sites) really don't address the
> kind of extreme use we see during a PCT season. Hopefully if my feet
> haven't swelled a full size, the addition of Superfeet inserts on top of
> the existing footbed will fill in enough to make the larger size at least
> passable.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your consideration,
> 
> DP
> 
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