Inov-8 Debrisoc Column

Walk a mile through any woods, run down a ragged trail, and the chance of collecting a twig or pebble in your shoe is fairly…

Zinetic Pocket Slippers

“Boots off. Happy on.” That’s Zinetic Inc.’s slogan for its line of unisex pocket slippers for the outdoors. Kind of (somehow) sexy sounding I thought…

Kahtoola MICROSpikes

Yes, these are crampons. Well, sort of. Pedestrian crampons. But with 10 spikes, each one 3/8-inch long, and made of stainless steel, the Kahtoola MICROSpikes…

Gear Review — Inov-8 Debrisoc

6 hours, 59 minutes, 55 seconds. That was Team Gear Junkie’s time at Saturday’s MNOC Adventure Race, a run/bike/paddle competition in east-central Minnesota, where some…

River Shoes (Keen and Mion)

The esoteric nature of water sports like canyoneering, rafting, riverboarding, and whitewater swimming calls for equally esoteric footwear. Indeed, to acquiesce with eddies and tumbling…

Salomon Space Boot

The Aspen Boot from Salomon employs a material that’s been used in space suits and is approved by NASA. Called Spaceloft, the fabric permits thinner…

Cloggens Shoe Review

No, these foam-based, clog-type, slip-on sandals aren’t Crocs. Just very similar. Some would say rip-off-level similar. In business-speak, though, Cloggens LLC is simply a “fast-follower,”…

Inov-8 F-Lite 250 Review

In a quest that’s stretching now beyond the two-year mark to find the perfect trail-running shoe, I’ve discovered only one real thing: There is no…

River Shoes

Keen and Mion have each sent me a pair of water/canyon/river shoes, respectively the Hood River II sandals and the Fast Canyon hybrid-frogfoot-sandal-thingy. Cool designs…

Low-Top Hikers

Heavy hiking boots are a thing of the past for any informed outdoors wanderer. Indeed, the clunky boots of yore — some weighing more than…

Salomon S-Lab XA Pro 3

Can you say cream of the crop? The Salomon S-Lab XA Pro 3 shoes were developed for elite adventure racers, top trail runners, and mountain…

Ahnu Footwear

Keen Footwear exploded onto the market five years ago, selling millions of its innovative toe-bumper-equipped sandals in its first year of business. Now, Jim Van…

Custom Footbeds

Custom molded footbeds used to be available only through retailers like ski shops, where fitting your foot to an anatomically-unique insole was managed by professionals.…

Kahtoola FLIGHTsystem

Kahtoola Inc.’s new FLIGHTsystem — an innovative overboot-snowshoe package that costs $334 — was made for wintertime runners and outdoorsy types who need to go…

Teva Shoes (not sandals!)

Since 1984, when a Grand Canyon river guide invented a unique sport-oriented sandal with over-the-foot nylon straps, the Teva brand has been synonymous with open-toe…

‘Performance’ Flip-Flops

The proverbial flip-flop sandal just barely passes for a shoe. It offers little support and no toe protection. It’s made to be worn casually, for…

Defeet custom socks

In the early ’90s, Shane Cooper brought together the unlikely bedfellows of bike racing and sock knitting to create Defeet International. Cooper, who was a…

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