mckee Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Anybody else geocache in open-toe sandals? -------------------- You have the right to defend yourself, even when geocaching! Quote Link to comment
+Lone Duck Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Boat shoes. No socks. Poison Ivy stops me cold. I canoe in Tevas. Does that count? That Quack Cacher: Lone Duck When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. Quote Link to comment
mckee Posted August 22, 2003 Author Share Posted August 22, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Lone Duck:Boat shoes. No socks. Poison Ivy stops me cold. I canoe in Tevas. Does that count? Isn't Tevas that new clear malt liquor drink? -------------------- You have the right to defend yourself, even when geocaching! Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 I did it ONE time...that was it. Last Saturday as my daughter (11 years old) and I were heading into the woods I noticed she was wearing sandals. Rather than growl about it I decided to see if she could figure out where she went wrong....she's already got her shoes laid out for tomorrow. Bret "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again." Mt. 13:44 Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Nope. Hiking boots only. Wearing sandals in the rocky terrain around here is not the best idea. Sneakers only if you are Stayfloopy. "You can't make a man by standig a sheep on his hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" - Max Beerbohm Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 My wife did once (they are Tevas). She won't be doing that again, though. Around us the poison oak is about as abundant as the Redwoods. Quote Link to comment
+Webfoot Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Kealia:Around us the poison oak is about as abundant as the Redwoods. I can attest to that. Walking out from the Redwoods Barely There, it took all my effort to keep my youngest from walking into poison oak about every third step. Why is it that young kids can't walk in the center of the trail? My older son said it best, "Geez, Dad. How many times are you going to have to tell him to walk in the center of the trail?" "At least a couple more son." Webfoot Yeah, sure....but did he use a GPSr to find it? Quote Link to comment
+ErSamin Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Once in a while I do a set of urban caches and call it my 'Birkenstock caching day'. One day, while on vacation in So. California, I did 6 caches in one town on one day 'Birkenstock Style'. If you know the area, and do your research, you can tailor a day like that. On normal days...no way! Boots prefered. "Could be worse...could be raining" Quote Link to comment
+Og's outfit Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 It depends....I like to know where I'm going, then I decide what shoe to wear, (well DUH, I AM a woman!) Three cheers to your wife! She's got it going on! Why in the world do you question your wife's shoe choice? Og Prophetically Challenged (or is that Pathetically?) Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 I almost always cache in open toe sandals, and shorts. Sometimes I bushwhack. Yes I get things caught in my sandals, and the stinging nettles are hell. I'm not allergic to poison ivy. I have done 15 mile hikes in sandals. Often times when camping in snow, I wear them around the campsite. Sandals are the way real men cache! ==============="If it feels good...do it"================ **(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")** . Quote Link to comment
+TKLNHL & Kyd Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 NEON open toed-pool shoes. From Wal-Mart $2.50/pair. The thing is -- the poison ivy started on my arms and hands.. and NOT on my feet toes -- go figure. Quote Link to comment
Mystery Woman Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 I've done it in heels! Yes, I've worn all types of shoes (and other clothing) caching. You just never know when you're going to be driving right past a cache you didn't intend to stop for... I have purchased a pair of hiking boots to leave in the car for just such occasions. I'm sure they look real cute with a mini-skirt! ************* ============================================ You can't be "FTF", but you could be next... Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 quote: I'm sure they look real cute with a mini-skirt! Yes!...Indeed! ==============="If it feels good...do it"================ **(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")** . Quote Link to comment
Wanderingson Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 quote: I have purchased a pair of hiking boots to leave in the car for just such occasions. I'm sure they look real cute with a mini-skirt! Just ask a young lady with the trail name of Belcher. She wore a sun dress on parts of the AT as she through hiked it a few years back. That and the Au Natural(unshaved) legs have my vote for wilderness fashion. "I cache; therefore I am" Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 quote: a young lady with the trail name of Belcher Compass Rose? ==============="If it feels good...do it"================ **(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")** . Quote Link to comment
+wcgreen Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 Originally posted by mckee:Anybody else geocache in open-toe sandals? Yes--Ecco Receptors. If I know that I'll be in thorns or poison ivy, I wear socks. I wear hiking boots for rocky trails, but Florida doesn't have many of them -- wcgreen Wendy Chatley Green Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 I will do easy urban caches in sandals (birks). Otherwise... Nope! quote: I have purchased a pair of hiking boots to leave in the car for just such occasions. I'm sure they look real cute with a mini-skirt! When I was in college, the sundress with army boots look was in style. I think it could work in an off-beat sort of way! Quote Link to comment
+Harrald Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 I've hiked in Tevas. Mostly I used to hike in boots. But since they split I've been hiking in sneakers. In the northeast though boots are the recomended footwear. _________________________________________________________________________ Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sydney J. Harris Quote Link to comment
+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 I'm not the smartest about footwear. Flip-flops in a cholla cactus patch, clogs on a rocky cliff slope. No cactus spines, no falling. Usually I wear mocassins or sandals. Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!" Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898 Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 Well, I know the terrain around here, and most of the caches I go to are really easy terrain (I have back, hip, knee and ankle problems, so its hard for me to do harder ones sometimes)... For most of the ones I do around here, not only could I do them in open toed sandals, I can (and will today) do them in flip flops. Quote Link to comment
+TeamJiffy Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 I wear my "Birks" whenever I can - if I feel it is going to get a bit rougher, I put on "boat shoes", and only if walking more than a mile, or off trail, will I put on "real" shoes. I guess I like as little on my feet as possible... Hmm... I was about to say "I like my feet free, like the air we breathe" but Since Richard Stallman (one of the open source pioneers - probably the first) says software should be free, like the air we breathe, and that's how I like my feet, should I therefore be able to just say that I like my feet to be like software? -Jif Quote Link to comment
mckee Posted August 24, 2003 Author Share Posted August 24, 2003 quote:Originally posted by TeamJiffy:...I like my feet to be like software? -Jif Unstable, with lousy customer service and lots of bugs??? -------------------- You have the right to defend yourself, even when geocaching! Quote Link to comment
mckee Posted August 24, 2003 Author Share Posted August 24, 2003 quote:Originally posted by carleenp: When I was in college, the sundress with army boots look was in style. I think it could work in an off-beat sort of way! www.gothcaching.com just begs to be created.... -------------------- You have the right to defend yourself, even when geocaching! Quote Link to comment
King Pellinore Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Mystery Woman:I've done it in heels! wow, now that's cool!! I've done caches without any footwear at all King Pellinore Quote Link to comment
+TMAN264 Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 At least your wife will go with you! Make a sanity check. Quote Link to comment
+Wander Lost Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Teva's and shorts!! I've got scratches all up and down my legs, but if I find the cache I don't care. I hope you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you've heard is not what I meant. --Richard Nixon Quote Link to comment
+nctreker Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 My wife has carries both. She'll start out in sandals but if at the parking area it looks rough she changes. "When action grows unprofitable, gather information. When information grows unprofitable, sleep." - Ursula LeGuin Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 quote:Originally posted by fly46:Well, I know the terrain around here, and most of the caches I go to are really easy terrain (I have back, hip, knee and ankle problems, so its hard for me to do harder ones sometimes)... For most of the ones I do around here, not only could I do them in open toed sandals, I can (and will today) do them in flip flops. The next time I do something this STUPID, will you slap me? Actually, the sad thing is that it wasn't even something stupid. So I went to do a new local cache, and there's this one part where the trail splits... Well, I took the split that ended up going the long way because the other way looked like the trail was gone after a tiny bit, and I didn't go closer to look.. WELL, there was mud everywhere, so when I got to this one part where it was all mud, I figured it was just an inch or two on the surface, right? WRONG!!! I stepped down with my right foot and was suddenly burried up to my knee in the mud! So I pull out my foot - minus my flip flop, which I had to pull on so hard to get it out that I almost fell over. So then I had to finish the cache with mud all up the right side of me. To make matters worse, I'm already a mosquito target, and they were more attracted to me because of the smell of the mud. ICK! Although I must say that if I didn't have the mobility to take my shoe off now and then that the cache trail would have been harder, because there were a few places that it was better to be barefoot... Never thought monkeys had it so good until then.... Quote Link to comment
+yumitori Posted August 26, 2003 Share Posted August 26, 2003 Another vote for Tevas, unless I expect to be doing a lot of bushwacking. For trails they are just great... Ron/yumitori --- Remember what the dormouse said... Quote Link to comment
+Team Mach Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 I have but won't again. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=10684 Quote Link to comment
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