Best Hiking Shoes

A dozen years I've been using hiking boots hiking boots lightweight. It was a part of my current pass hiking to light or ultra light "." I stopped to have blisters and perhaps one or two in the years that followed.

Besides keeping things light, another important goal of mine was to spend less money on clothing and equipment. The change of shoes are part of this plan. Some ways to keep your hiking shoes is lightweight and inexpensive.

Buy Closeouts

For hiking and backpacking trips, I would like to have high-quality shoes. I usually use good walking shoes that weigh a pound or less each. If they list the weight, I buy them in catalogs or online. Otherwise, I can say, raising the shoes in the shoe shop premises if they are in my range of weights. If you're shopping in traditional stores, you can also put a kitchen scale to check the weight.

Of course, many of the best running shoes cost $ 80 or even $ 100. I do not like to spend more on shoes than ever before, so I buy liquidations. For some reason, people seem to want the latest fashions. There is no difference in performance than what I can see or feel, but thanks for this market-sensitive fashion styles last year are difficult to sell, and are therefore greatly reduced. I bought 85 million of running shoes for as little as 25 USD in this way.

Sierra Trading Post catalog is good to verify these offers. I will not mention the specific brands that are light or cheap because these changes so often. Check online, get a few catalogs sent to you, and you will find offers.

Buy low quality

My second approach to keep my light hiking boots and cheap is to go to Wal-Mart or Kmart or other places that sell shoes at low cost. The lowest cost shoes I use for the moment (2009) are $ 10 at Wal-Mart. They are really bad quality, but only in terms of materials and durability. In actual use, they grip better than any expensive shoes when I'm hiking in rocky terrain on which I like to climb a little.

The key to these hiking shoes at low prices is to use them only for short trips and hiking trails that do not take too long in the desert. I once used a pair of $ 7 on a weeklong trip in the 110-mile Rockies, and I almost regretted. They came close to falling apart after seven days of terrain.

I must say, however, they were very comfortable, light and required no break "in" I would use those hiking boots again, but limit them to travel about three days or less. I could also make the tape just in case repairs were needed.

Thus, these sales closed shop of quality running shoes (they seem better for me than those specifically called hiking boots). Or buy the cheapest shoes comfortable, you can find for shorter hikes. And put a ladder to the bank with you. So you keep it light and cheap.