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re: Best shoes for hiking/backpacking?
Posted on 4/30/14 at 2:39 pm to wheelr
Posted on 4/30/14 at 2:39 pm to wheelr
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Most serious hikers are going this route now. I do the same thing.
Wish I could get away with my regular dayhiker Merrels for when we ever do actually backpack. But I have a former foot injury so will def need the ankle support a higher boot gives. Especially if we are doing a trip with lots of steep downhill(like going to the bottom of the Grand Canyon).
So that might be something the OP has to take into consideration.
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Posted on 4/30/14 at 2:43 pm to lsunurse
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Especially if we are doing a trip with lots of steep downhill(like going to the bottom of the Grand Canyon).
So that might be something the OP has to take into consideration.
Eventually I'd like to try all different types of terrain. My upcoming trip is in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. There's definitely some elevation changes but I don't think they are too drastic (from what I've briefly read and heard).
Anyone been to Shenandoah?
Posted on 4/30/14 at 2:56 pm to lsunurse
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Wish I could get away with my regular dayhiker Merrels for when we ever do actually backpack.
I wear some New Balance Minimus trail shoes for hiking around here, and have used them for dayhiking if we backpack into somewhere and set up a camp and dayhike from there even in the mountains. I wore them on a short 5.5 mile dayhike the other day carrying my daughter in the backpack for the first time. No problems, but flat ground.
I want support when I carry 35 extra pounds or so up mountains, though.
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