Why put shoes on your feet that weigh a ton, make the muscles in your feet lazy, and make you prone for foot injury? Barefoot shoes are supreme for day to day use, they support natural walking and climbing and lead to fewer injuries.
Why put shoes on your feet that weigh a ton, make the muscles in your feet lazy, and make you prone for foot injury? Barefoot shoes are supreme for day to day use, they support natural walking and climbing and lead to fewer injuries.
If wearing hiking shoes makes you prone to foot injury, you are probably wearing the wrong hiking shoes. This would apply to running shoes as well btw, but i do not want to get too off-topic.
That being said, I switched to barefoot shoes for everyday use and for hiking a few years ago and never looked back. I do not have an opinion on barefoot being the ‘best’ for hiking, but I certainly prefer them over traditional hiking shoes for my use case (mostly flat, soft surface, 20-ish kilometers).