On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:55:51PM -0400, John Geyster wrote:
> I backpacked the 100 Mile Wilderness in Maine with
> someone who hiked it in Sandals/bare feet, but I wouldn't try that either.
> Unless some one backpacks all the time with sneakers, sandles or nothing at
> all, I wouldn't recommend it either.
like the boot-break-in discussion usually says, you're breaking in your
feet as much as the footware. If someone's feet are broken in to hike
barefoot, that's what they should hike in most of the time. Most people
won't be that way.
I go barefoot all day, every day (unless I'm going to a movie theatre... those
floors are nasty) and I wouldn't hike most trails barefoot with any load.
My feet are used to concrete, gravel, grass, dirt, rocks etc.... but all
without any load on my back.
Like most things... It's all what you're used to.
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