How to choose the shoes in the campaign?

Each time, preparing for a hike, we think of what kind of shoes preferred. It should be comfortable, durable, able to make all travel conditions, to ensure easy movement on any terrain and create a comfortable temperature regime for the feet. Shoes should be compiled on the basis of the features of the upcoming trip. For example, if a light trekking to the Crimea for the summer - should be fine sneakers, a summer hike on Carpathians can use sneakers, if you plan on more complex mountains, of course, can not do without good tourist shoes. In addition to geographical features of the planned march on the choice of footwear, of course, affects also the factor of seasonality, so everything in order.

Sneakers and running shoes.

This type of shoe is suitable for simple hikes from easy terrain, especially good in dry, sunny weather. Excellent footwear for water hikes and alloys, where serious waterproof shoes useless. Main advantages shoe and sneaker ease, they do not load up and dry quickly. Downside - easy to get wet, poorly protected from the terrain and not fix the ankle (which is in serious mountains is of great importance). In complex campaigns make good use of sneakers and running shoes as a watch-shoes, although many tourists prefer a watch-shoes take a couple of simple slippers, they are lighter in weight and leg in their breathing.

Currently, some manufacturers round. shoes (Campus, Salomon, etc.) produce special sneakers and hiking shoes. They are made of durable material, this shoe is more protected from water and mechanical damage, the upper limit is usually held on the border of the ankle, which reduces the risk of injury.
Buy sneakers or shoes should be one size larger, in view of thick socks. Do not buy sneakers or shoes that you do when fitting butt, because in the campaign they will rub. Better to trying on shoes with the use of thick (or double-dyed wool) sock. Well zashnuruyte to be over, if all you will find convenient, then, these shoes can be used in the campaign.
BOOTS.
The only option footwear digestible for complex trips - hiking boots. When planning a trip it is important to correctly choose the shoes, considering all the nuances of the upcoming trip: relief features, the different temperature regimes and the season. Today emit several types of tourist shoes: shoes for mountain climbing, mountain trekking boots, boots for trekking and trekking shoes.

- Shoes and shoes for trekking:

Trekking shoes are supported by inserted metal or plastic structures. Inside is a warm, vlagovyvodyaschy layer of soft tissue, which includes a special membrane (Gore-tex, Micro-tex, etc.). Choose a model to a shoe based on the conditions in which performance will be traveling, so for the hikes, which assumed the presence of moisture there shoes with membrane linings of the solid piece of fabric for summer tracks - lined with mesh for winter hiking or skiing lowland hikes - from leather or nubuck with additional insulation. Trekking shoes are a lightweight version of the shoes, they are perfectly applicable to the summer hiking trips on the rough terrain and small hills.

Buy shoes or sneakers should be sized for 1-2 more, again in view of thick socks.

- Shoes for the Highlands:

This type of tourist shoes, as a rule, consists of 2 parts. The upper part of durable plastic to protect the feet from external damage and secure fixation of the foot. This part of the shoe if necessary unfastened, leaving the inner boot. For low-temperature regimes inside shoes can be specially heat-insulated and finished with silver layers. The sole thought in such a way that a shoe could be attached cats, skis or snowshoes.

- Shoes for mountain hikes:

This insulated boots securely locking the leg, equipped with sole VIBRAM, which reinforced steel plate. At the bottom of a welt for fixing cats and snowshoes. The upper part of such shoes made of soft materials - vyvorotnaya leather, nubuck with an additional cushion welt around the perimeter of the shoe at the middle of the foot for protection from external influences. Although many tourists prefer the classics (and nubuck leather), modern technology still went ahead, there were shoes made of synthetic materials, they have much to gain by weight characteristics, judge for yourself: the weight of a pair of classical (or nubuck leather) - 2.3 kg weight couples synthetic about 1,5 kg.

When choosing shoes first of all pay attention to the soles. Most high-quality soles for shoes are provided by Tourism VIBRAM, they are designed for extreme camping conditions, provide good adhesion with the surface of the shoe, and reinforced in places prone to the greatest wear. Underside VIBRAM put on alpine and trekking boots, sneakers and some models of rock shoes. On trekking boots manufacturers sometimes place the soles of its own making, because for simple trekking high wear resistance is required, and the company manufactured its products with the most modern technologies.

In foreign soles to soften the blows on the soles of an intermediate layer - polyurethane foam, nylon, etc. In order to give additional rigidity when attaching cats, etc. boots reinforced with steel plates 1 - 2 mm thick, covered with a material way.

The upper part of the shoe can be made of various materials - plain and vyvorotnaya leather, nubuck (boiled leather with a very small pile), CORDURA. CORDURA has high strength, badly stretched, not "dubeet" in the cold.

As pads, ensuring a comfortable temperature in hiking shoes use the material Thinsulate, the invention of the company 3M, the structure of its fibers close to the structure down.

Not less important task is the ability to boot removes moisture, so the pads are special materials that enable feet to breathe. In our country this type of material is called the membrane (in the west they are called breathable - «breathable"). Membrane - a thin porous fabric, situated between the outer and inner lining shoe. On the one hand, it is impervious to rain, on the other - able to remove moisture.

Designated choice and good travels!

P.S. Do not go in the campaign in a new, not raznoshennoy shoes, walk around in it in advance on the city!