Attention hiking/outdoorsful types

[En Vind Av Sorg]

For the kind of hiking you are doing, you really don't need to go out and spend $200 on expensive trekking boots. Get yourself some comfortable low top trail or trail/running shoes. Some good brands out there: Merrell, Patagonia, La Sportiva, etc.

P.S. for Cara: the closest shoes to barefoot-

 

[neal]

its definitely pretty desolate compared to a forest out here, but compared to that dustbowl texas im sure its the garden of eden

 

[Lunar Still]

Well y'know, these pics were taken in the dead of winter.

 

[neal]

our forests are still green in the winter

 

[Lunar Still]

I think I'd get bored with someplace that stays the same year-round, honestly. I guess after living in "desolate" Southern Indiana for twenty-one years, I've grown rather fond of its...let's say "moody" seasons.

 

[neal]

yeah, i totally get bored of living around the most gorgeous places on earth. yeah, totally.

 

[Lunar Still]

It's subjective. This is what I grew up around, and to me places like this have a beauty of depth. No, it's not the most gorgeous place on earth. But it doesn't have to be.

 

[neal]

hey, ya know, im not trying to say that everywhere besides the west coast sucks or anything. ya know, not in a mean way at least.






loco

 

[Lunar Still]

lolz MY FOREST IS BETTAR DAN UR FOREST

 

[neal]

hey, this cool video was shot in tennesee or kentucky or something:

 

[Lord Foul]

Apparently you jinxed it. Good going, neal.

 

[Reminiscence]

It's subjective. This is what I grew up around, and to me places like this have a beauty of depth. No, it's not the most gorgeous place on earth. But it doesn't have to be.

I getcha. I get quick fixes here in the New England region because I must, but after two months I will be graduating and will have no more binding ties to this region. However, there came a point (pretty quickly actually) when the hiking around here began to take on monotonous tones. Now I'm tired of the characteristic Appalachian rocks, whereas a newcomer and someone who truly loves the region could walk on them his or her entire life. Yes, it's all relative and subjective. But for me, the truly elevating hiking lies, not ironically, in the elevations.

 

[JenniferGentle]

Ah Russell those pictures you had sent me! They are still gorgeous, I want to go there and walk around damn it!

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

its definitely pretty desolate compared to a forest out here, but compared to that dustbowl texas im sure its the garden of eden

We're very lush & green at the moment

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Oh and Russell those are awesome pics! I like the ice formations, very gr1m.

 

[Psychonaut]

For the kind of hiking you are doing, you really don't need to go out and spend $200 on expensive trekking boots. Get yourself some comfortable low top trail or trail/running shoes. Some good brands out there: Merrell, Patagonia, La Sportiva, etc.

I have a pair of light, $60 Columbia hiking shoes. Couple those with some medium cushion hiking socks and it's great and not a lot of money.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

P.S. for Cara: the closest shoes to barefoot-

I want those! They remind me of a pair of sandals I had as a youth (though they were actualy adult sandals). They looked like regular Teva-type sandals, but the bottoms of the soles were textured to look like bare feet. So, whenever I walked through a puddle, I'd leave bare feet prints behind. Teehee.

 

[Anvil]

I'm very particular to a highback, well toe-gripping boot. I have a pair of McKinley's with a vibram sole.

(Mine are beige)

These work absolutely wonderful for all around. Most of my treks are a bit steeper than most, but I'm also surrounded by actual mountains.

 

[Chromatose]

Those feet shoes are almost like the ones that Al Bundy invented through divine inspiration!

awesome!

 

[Captain Beard]

Due to hammer toes, I could not wear shoefeet.