Hi Patrick: I walk a lot. Check out the Red Wing Postman Chukka model number 9196. These (and the "Foreman Chukka" variant thereof) have been my main shoe for the last ten years both for cyclocommuting (now resoled with stiff Vibram neoprene soles) and for walking six miles round trip to work two or three days a week. They take a resole nicely, and they look great. The original crepe soles are very comfortable but also wear fairly quickly with all the miles, hence the resoling with my local cobbler.
That said, they are great for walking on city streets, but I had a second pair resoled with a blown rubber Vibram hiking sole. These work well for hiking on dirt roads, but one unexpected downside - the chukka design is loose fitting around the ankle, which is ordinarily a feature, but when you walk on loose surfaces it is frequent that pebbles and debris get kicked up into the collar of the shoe and end up between your foot and the insole. I found myself stopping not infrequently to empty out my shoes. On dirt trail hikes, I usually wear ordinary trail-running shoes (Brooks Cascadia in my case). James Black Los Angeles, CA On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 8:28:56 PM UTC-8, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Thank you all again. I will read Jack Loudon's linked overview site before > I choose, but even with all the criticisms, Redwing still gets much praise; > will take a look at the Chukkas particularly, since these look like the > sort of shoe that the cheap Bata "Safari Boots" we grew up wearing in Kenya > ought to have been; I certainly put miles of walking and cycling in wearing > those, and of course your big game guides always work them. And they'd go > with the canvas bush hat with venting screens that we boys also wore, one > of which I mean to buy to replace my aging straw cowboy hat. (We -- teenage > boy peer group -- used to pull out the vent screens to use at the bottom of > the bowls of pot pipes we home-made from the local bamboo; the screens kept > the seeds and other debris from falling down and plugging the stem.) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/2b482584-f9e8-46df-aad0-ae0aaec69b7b%40googlegroups.com.
