How To Choose Suitable Outdoor Shoes

Outdoor shoes basically include high mountain boots, mountaineering shoes, walking shoes, casual shoes, tracing shoes, climbing shoes, beach shoes, ski boots and golf shoes.

The most important thing is the mountaineering shoes and walking shoes.

Some people abroad have divided these two kinds of shoes more finely, Mountaineering, Trek king, Hiling boots and hiking shoes (Trail shoes), which are mainly purchased by mountaineering shoes and walking shoes. I'll give you an analysis of these two kinds of shoes.

1, ready to participate in activities

Decide the type of shoes according to your intensity, terrain and road conditions.

When you participate in a variety of activities, it means that you need different shoes to adapt to your activities. Don't expect to buy a pair of shoes to bring you comprehensive functions.

I now have high mountain boots, mountaineering shoes, walking shoes, tracing shoes, climbing shoes and beach shoes. I still can't think of any pair of shoes that can replace all the shoes.

The most frequently asked mountaineering shoes on the forum are no more than going to low altitude mountains or mountain traversing and camping activities. When choosing, you can consider lightweight mountaineering shoes or walking shoes. The choice of high or low help should be decided according to your road conditions. Generally speaking, the more complex roads and the more difficult roads are the need for high shoe care.

Whether the sole is bought at the bottom of V is once the focus of controversy among many people. First of all, we must make it clear that skid resistance and wear resistance are always a contradiction. All outdoor shoes are just a balance between them. Generally speaking, mountaineering shoes pay more attention to the wearability of shoes and the support to their feet, so they are relatively less slippery.

Some of the walking shoes do not use the V bottom. They emphasize the relative wear resistance on the basis of skid resistance, but to understand that this is only relative, such sole and mountaineering shoes V bottom wear resistance is always worse.

If you often climb mountains in the northern mountains, V bottom is definitely a good choice. If you like walking in the mountains and rivers in the south, maybe you should think more about skid prevention.

Others ask if GTX is good, which involves the following question.

2. Capital investment

In the case of sufficient funds, GTX waterproof and breathable fabric is definitely your first choice.

In terms of price choice, from the current domestic brands, the above 2000 yuan are basically SCRPA and ZAMBERLAN.

1000 to 2000 yuan are: ASOLO, MONTRAIL, AKU VASQUE, TREKSTA, LASPORTIVA, LOWA, etc.

600 to 1200 yuan are: GARMONT, HB, SALEWA, CAMPLINE, COLEMAN, PITORPAN, etc.

Below 600 yuan are: GONNA, UPLANDER, cedar, Charlba, Xi Yao, KATANA.

As you prepare for the budget, I would like to remind you not to expect to spend very little money on good shoes.

If you spend more than 1000, the quality of shoes will be better. If you only spend two or three hundred on it, use it as an entry level shoe, and then expect it to be waterproof and breathable for a lifetime. Obviously, it is not very wise.

3, style, material, workmanship, quality

From the style, there are many shoes nowadays. Some people like to have rubber on the top of the mountaineering shoes. They can prevent the damaged toe heads from hitting stones frequently, while others like the whole leather pattern. Some people like to make beautiful leather, but now they can also choose a lot of them. Just pick the sample you like.

It is usually hard to clean up the fur, but it is more fashionable. Besides the field crossing, the city is also very good at leisure, while the light skin is better to clean up. NUBUK is now a better leather material for shoes.

It is difficult to distinguish the good and bad from the appearance in the footwear products. You can only see the details in the upper part of the upper part and the stitching of the tongue.

Relative to other outdoor equipment, footwear quality problems will be more, this is related to its intensity of use, and also related to the quality of shoes.

The best persuasive force for quality is the repair rate of shoes. When you are not sure, you can consult the salesperson in an outdoor shop. But if an outdoor shoe brand is not more than 4, it is best not to ask this question. An excellent salesperson will tell you the difference between the brand shoes.

4. Try shoes.

This is the most important thing to buy shoes.

The shoes are comfortable or not, only you know, so pick up a couple of shoes that you are satisfied with, then try them both until you find a comfortable shoe that you wear.

If there is hesitation between beauty and fit, be sure to buy fit.

Walk around with your shoes on. If you have a shoe stand, you can try it in a simulated outdoor environment.

In addition, many outdoor shoes in Europe and the United States are European and American styles, which are slightly different from those of Chinese people (Europeans have smaller feet than Asians, lower feet and smaller heel slopes).

I suggest you buy shoes and put on thick socks. After you put them on, you still need to leave about 1CM space in your shoes. (the long hind legs will be swollen). The simple way is to see if you can insert a finger.

People's feet will be larger in the afternoon and evening than in the morning. These factors need to be taken into account when buying shoes.

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5. Running in and maintenance

When new shoes are bought, they must be put in for a period of time before they are brought to a great intensity, so as to avoid painful experience when they are not running in shoes.

Flying Eagle tips: new shoes can be worn when wearing two pairs of socks, a thin layer of socks, a pair of thick socks outside, so that the friction between socks to reduce friction between the shoe and feet, there will not be a phenomenon of grinding blisters.

After every trip back, maintain your shoes, especially the high-end GTX shoes, remove the dirt from the upper with soft brushes, and then use shoe care agents to maintain them.

Developing such habits is good for the life of your shoes.

10 tips for buying a good pair of shoes

1 ask the experts for advice when you walk into a family.

2, we must try to measure the actual wear. Do not use the size of the shoes before to deduce, the size of the foot will change.

3 don't be confused by the size number, whether it's British size or European size.

4 buy shoes at night!

At night, the human feet will expand slightly, just like walking on the mountain.

5, try slowly and don't be too hasty to make decisions.

Prepare for two and half days to buy a pair of good shoes, try different brands and shoes as much as possible.

6 bring your own socks, preferably with matching socks for mountaineering shoes.

7 If you tie your shoelaces, you can see whether you can touch the front wall with your feet. When you wear the new shoes, you may increase the width and thickness slightly, but never increase the length. The shoes that are too short will hit your toes and nails.

8 when trying on, wear shoes to walk, on the one hand, make the leather or fiber of new shoes more elastic, on the other hand, you can try out whether there are uncomfortable spots.

9 buy suitable shoes, but don't want a pair of shoes for all purposes.

Don't just buy a pair of special shoes for a special trip.

10 grasp the feeling of the feet, pick the most comfortable ones, and try all the shoes with the standard of that pair. Only one person knows which pair of shoes is the best for you, that is yourself.