[pct-l] Shoes...How is everyone doing the shoes thing?

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Sean,
I started from Campo wearing a pair of average-grade New Balance trail
shoes that already had several hundred training miles under them.  I
replaced them at Kennedy Meadows even though they weren’t totally
spawned-out at that point.

Your results could be different based upon the shoe, your weight, and your
personal walking habits.  You should know enough to project shoe life before
you reach Agua Dulce, and can have replacements waiting there, at
Mojave/Tehachapi, or at Kennedy Meadows.  It would probably be unwise to
push past KM without shoe replacement.


Beyond Kennedy Meadows, just wait and see how they feel.  Shoes will
probably cost an average hiker about $0.10 per mile – not insignificant --
but it doesn’t make sense to try to wring that extra 100 miles out of a pair
that doesn’t feel right or may have degraded to the point they cause some
kind of foot problem.

Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT -- 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Sean Carey <seanpct75 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am wondering how people do the shoes thing? I mean how many pairs are you
> going to buy..Or have you bought when doing a thru hike?  Is one pair of
> shoes good enough until I get to the sierras? Then will one pair last me
> from then until Ashland? California is the main thing I am wondering about.
> I will know more about what i am doing and what I want to do once I hit
> Ashland. For the rest of the trip..Thanks everyone..
>
> Sean C.
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