Rebecca Pappa
Next Camino The Meseta October 2019
- Time of past OR future Camino
- St. Jean Pied de Port to Los Arcos (past 6/16)Los Arcos- Burgos (Past 9/17) Burgos-Leon October 2019
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Thank you so very much ! Will do!Hi Rebecca and welcome
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Personally, I wouldn't wear hiking boots on any part of the Camino. Trail runners were great on my first two Caminos and sandals were even better on the second two.Hi All,
I have been doing the Camino in Stages, and will be walking from Burgos to Leon in mid October. I am curious if anyone has done this leg in trainers or sneakers opposed to hiking boots or shoes? Any suggestions are happily welcome!
Thank you in advance for your feedback!
Thank you very much!!Hello Rebecca, I will be out there about the same time in Altra Timps being among those who have made the conversion to trail shoes. The Timps, which I wore last fall on the Aragones, provided comfortable cushioning and good stability. I do use an aftermarket insole for arch and metatarsal support.
Hi All,
I have been doing the Camino in Stages, and will be walking from Burgos to Leon in mid October. I am curious if anyone has done this leg in trainers or sneakers opposed to hiking boots or shoes? Any suggestions are happily welcome!
Thank you in advance for your feedback!
Thank you!!!Trail runners.
The meseta is flat.
No need for boots.
Thank you very much. Buen Camino to you as well!Hi @Rebecca Pappa
Sounds like a lot of us will be on the Meseta in October.
I'll most likely be wearing Keen Arroyos which served me well on my last camino and are sort of a halfway house between between a sandal and a shoe with a closed toe box and heel and relatively small holes elsewhere. There's an element of risk to this if the weather is particularly bad but average daysof and amounts of rain are not much worse than May so I'll take my chances.
So if I were considering terrain alone I would say definitely don't wear a boot, only potentially bad weather would give me pause for thought.
Buen Camino,
Rob.
Hi RebeccaHi All,
I have been doing the Camino in Stages, and will be walking from Burgos to Leon in mid October. I am curious if anyone has done this leg in trainers or sneakers opposed to hiking boots or shoes? Any suggestions are happily welcome!
Thank you in advance for your feedback!
I have walked in ankle deep mud in sandals, and it was definitely better than wearing shoes. So much easier to clean and faster to dry. I now have waterproof socks, so even better in the rain and mud.I would not liked to have tackled it wearing sandals or runners.
Waterproof socks sound like a marvellous innovation. You wore them with sandals?I have walked in ankle deep mud in sandals, and it was definitely better than wearing shoes. So much easier to clean and faster to dry. I now have waterproof socks, so even better in the rain and mud.
I only needed them one day this year. They did keep my feet nice and dry, though they aren't as comfortable as my other socks. Last year when I walked in the mud I just had regular socks.Waterproof socks sound like a marvellous innovation. You wore them with sandals?
Thank you so much. That is very helpful.The meseta is very well-trodden, as mentioned above. However, I will offer a personal observation from my experience on the meseta in the wet Spring of 2013: The usually hard-baked clay path was often in many long sections a sea of well-churned, ankle-deep puddles and mud; there was no escaping it as even the new paths blazed by squeamish pilgrims along the border of the neighbouring fields were similarly boggy. At days-end you had filthy trousers and boots, and in my case only semi-saturated feet due to the Goretex lining. I would not liked to have tackled it wearing sandals or runners. However, I have not observed such conditions on subsequent caminos so maybe those conditions were exceptional. Something to consider, at any rate.
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