Found the perfect fit hiking shoes at REI today! But being women's, they were dainty feminine colors with pale colored soles. Checked online, there were other colors, but just as fruity, some with white soles! White!
Nature is not a tennis court! Trails are muddy, you slop through creeks, dirty gravel, dusty rocks, algae, lichens, grass stains, etc. You don't want pricey hiking shoes to look beat snd stained their first time out of the box. Why can't they make women's hiking shoes practical colors like men's, you know, like nature: olive, brown, dark greys?
Merrel does make the same shoes in black but black is sold out everywhere, apparently because women aren't stupid. (I would have bought men's but the ankle was too loose.)
End of rant. Sorry. Carry on, carry on......
(oops, one more thing, besides soles needing to be dark colors, so should the toe. And the toe should be capped with rubber, cause when you're scrambling up and down boulders or picking your way through rocks, the first thing to get scratched up is the toe of the shoe. Don't they think women do that sort of stuff?) #hiking #activity