It does indeed! I hike in sandals, however, and hate applying sun screen to my feet. The socks are mostly sun and abration protection. When you’re putting in 10 to 15 miles in a day the socks start to get important.
Bedrock sandals sells a pair of tabi socks on their website, which are great, but only come in polyester.
If you’re hiking in more mountainous terrain the foot protection and keeping rocks out also becomes important. Non-waterproof hikers aren’t that much less breathable in my experience, at least not enough to warrant the downsides of sandals.
Not to say it’s not okay to hike in sandals if you prefer, but I think there’s good reason to hike in shoes and why sandals haven’t become as popular.
It does indeed! I hike in sandals, however, and hate applying sun screen to my feet. The socks are mostly sun and abration protection. When you’re putting in 10 to 15 miles in a day the socks start to get important.
Bedrock sandals sells a pair of tabi socks on their website, which are great, but only come in polyester.
If you’re hiking in more mountainous terrain the foot protection and keeping rocks out also becomes important. Non-waterproof hikers aren’t that much less breathable in my experience, at least not enough to warrant the downsides of sandals.
Not to say it’s not okay to hike in sandals if you prefer, but I think there’s good reason to hike in shoes and why sandals haven’t become as popular.
Makes sense!
I guess I would opt for roman-style sandals for that type of hiking which would come with out-of-the-box regular sock compatibility.