More on trekking boots

Spent time walking around a lot today, scouting for anything and everything. I popped by some sports shops and adventure shops to check out the range of shoes and boots.

The Dr Marten’s ones I mentioned are heavy – and I realised that they are more for work safety. On the other hand I found another brand selling footwear for adventure, Merrell. I checked out their website and it was superb! Just on outventure alone, they separate their footwear into six different categories – Hiking, Chameleon, Active Speed/Trail, Multi-sport, Aqua Sports, and Sport Sandals.

Hiking ones are for erm… well hiking, trekking, and they bring you anywhere. I will talk more about this later. Chameleon (I wonder why they call it chameleon) is basically for aggressive day hikes, where you attempt challenging terrains, but for short durations. Active Speed/Trail ones are like trail running shoes. I actually own a pair of trail running shoes (from Vasque) and so far its been doing good for me. Use it for running and training, and I think they are especially useful and good if you are running off road. Their Multi Sport collection is for “multiple activities at multiple levels” – I think these shoes are like cross trainer kind. Aqua Sports – meant for you to get dipped in water and not have your sole missing halfway. And lastly the sports sandals.

I checked out the hiking collection and they really have a big list! Of course, some of these shoes appear in more than one category, and since “hiking” is so generic, they list everything from the sandals, to the lightweight sneaker-likes to their “Thermo 10 Gore-Tex” which probably everyone will be envying when you trek at snow caps! Nice!

I don’t remember seeing any steel toes from Merrell though, neither do I see sticky soles.

Tags: trekking footwear