Outdoor climbing shoes selective tips
When you pass through the jungle, across the canyon on foot in the Gobi desert, when a pair of fine quality outdoor shoes will give you an extraordinary feeling. However, some traveler do not know the performance of outdoor shoes , the lack of understanding of adaptation, which often can not grasp their own what kind of outdoor wear shoes.
The work of outdoor shops to get to know me a lot of backpackers, people often talk about the topic of outdoor shoes, outdoor shoes also felt in the selection and use of many confused. To help interpret outdoor shoes outdoor friends, I consulted the Italian professional footwear company, also has many experienced hikers issues relating to the use of their advice.
I would like to obtain their own experience, for the traveler with a choice of outdoor shoes reference. I think the reason why many people do not know what kind of outdoor shoes they are supposed to wear that is lack of two awareness. The first is less understanding for all-terrain nature need what kind of shoes; the other is lack of understanding for different series of outdoor performance footwear and inadequate of technical indicators. And when we understand the basic elements of these, you know what areas of the wear to what kind of outdoor shoes.
1. The concept of outdoor shoes: outdoor shoes in recent years a new term covering a wide range of different types of outdoor sports shoes with different functions of a general term. Outdoor sports as a special form of movement, but several decades of history, has been summed up as some sort of outdoor sports history forms of movement will be longer. Such as mountaineering, some countries in Europe have documented the activities of the mountain can be traced back to the 18th century (1786).
Al parapet around the first mountain climbing activities in Sri Lanka was known as al-Adams Movement parapet. With the mountain activities, rather than adapt to the advent of climbing shoes, and these early artificial sewing workshop in the small mountain of shoes, going through several generations to improve the innovation, technology has advanced by leaps and bounds the level of development, especially in advanced machinery and modern Application of high-tech materials, not only the performance of climbing shoes have been greatly improved, but also more and more new models, classification has become increasingly professional.
When the meaning of climbing shoes can not accurately estimate all types of shoes with different characteristics, so has the concept of outdoor shoes, outdoor shoes in order to summarize these shoes with any sense of its more precise.
II. Outdoor shoes Category: outdoor shoes on, each a brand, every kind of outdoor shoes, have a very clear target (design goal) to the functional classification of outdoor shoes, can be roughly sub – for five series: 1, alpine series: (also called heavy climbing boots) This series of boots designed for mountain boarding, Vibram or sole usually large at the end of Sky walk, lined with steel plate, has a strong ability to shock, crampon can be installed, to help design high boots, and generally more than 20cm, boots or face the use of hard plastic resin thickening leather, sheepskin sewing lined warm shoes to adapt to the complexity of poor snow, ice, rock mixed topography, can effectively protect your feet. 2, a low mountain range: (also called heavy-duty climbing shoes) shoes, the use of such objective is 6000 meters above sea level following the peak, climbing ice wall or a mixture of rock and snow, the end use of wear-resistant rubber (Vibram or Sky walk) at the end of the Chinese University of organic carbon between the lining plates, soles hard, very strong impact, climbing when there is sufficient support, and uppers with thickening (3.0mm and above) the whole sewing leather or parchment, in order to enhance the waterproof water vapor permeability of the effect of commonly used or Gore Tex lined SympaTex for the middle insulating layer folder. Upper high is usually more than 15cm, in the complex terrain conditions to be effective in the protection of the feet to reduce the harm, and some models with crampon structure, there is no fixed structure binding crampon available. 。 The proportion of type climbing boots light, the proportion of type unloaded walking crampon climbing boots to comfort. 3, through the series: (also called medium-sized climbing shoes) of the design goals of the series for the low mountains, valleys, desert, desert terrain, such as more complex, in long-distance weight-bearing foot to adapt to. Structural features of these shoes also help the shoes are high, usually a high degree of upper 13-15cm, with strong support, and can reduce the effective protection of ankle injury.
Large selection of wear-resistant rubber end, a number of excellent brand name in the end and in between the end plate of nylon also designed to support, in order to enhance the hardness of the sole can not only effectively prevent the deformation of the sole, but also can enhance the impact force. Uppers often the first choice of the middle layer thickness cowhide, sheepskin or leather uppers hybrid, leather Du Some choose to help super wear-resistant Cordura fabric, compared to alpine series, a low mountain range to the more light, or the more flexible. In order to solve water proof problems, the majority of the material models chosen for Gore Tex lined, waterproof leather and some oil, these shoes can be below the water surface in the ankle or walking in the rain.