[pct-l] Water shoes advice

[Stephen Clark]

Don't think you need to go high tech expensive name brand shoes from REI.
After all how long do you wear them? Just as long as they fit and don't
come off your feet while crossing.

I carry a cheap pair of enclosed water shoes with deck soles that I got at
walmart.  They run $6 - $8, have Velcro fasteners, weigh only ounces, and
(because they're enclosed) double as camp shoes at the end of the day.

Quackers


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Sergey Shevchenko
<sg.shevchenko at gmail.com>wrote:

> W
> hat would you recommend as a good enough shoe to cross streams, in
> particular along the JMT, which would be as light as possible?
>
> I was hoping to use Merrell Torrent Glove, but after walking in them
> recently on wet pavement (after a rain), I'm not so sure anymore: they felt
> slippery as hell. After a closer examination, I noticed that the
>
>
> sole on these shoes is absolutely sleek
> --
> nothing to grip to stones.
> I don't quite understand how they could really work out as "water shoes"
> with such a sole -- the way I see it, one bad step on a slippery boulder,
> and I'm in the water with a broken leg potentially.
>
> A sales person at REI was showing me in the direction of Chaco and Keens,
> but they are heavy as bricks compared to Merrells.
>
> There are other Merell models that don't claim to be water shoes but have a
> much more pronounced sole pattern, e.g. Trail Glove 2. Would you say that
> using those would be a better idea than Torrent Glove? Any other advice?
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