I love my Chacos. I prefer the ones without the big toe loop so I can wear them with or without socks. They have a heel strap and it works entirely with a friction-slide buckle, so no velcro to wear out or snap buckle to break. I love the fact that I can loosen them all the way and step into them hands-free and walk around for hours before I notice that I forgot to tighten them.
In a perfect world, they would be a little bit thinner and a bit less sculpted - and as such closer to the current barefoot ideal, but I think the fact that the straps pass under the footbed makes a certain amount of thickness unavoidable. I tried on a newer, much thinner model, but the straps went through some plastic-y bars above the footbed and just didn't seem as well made. I have lost count of how long I have had mine, but I love riding and walking in them when the weather is warm, plus I strap them to my pack as alternate / in-camp / creek crossing footwear on almost all of my backpacking trips, etc. I think the model is ZX/2 or something like that, but it's the classic original model without the big toe loop. Daniel Berkeley, CA -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
