>>2177869>just discovered shoes are optionalthey are not optional, just wearing them all the time is makes your feet muscles go atrophy.
>>2177907>But I live in the MidBest so if you're like a PNW guy or an Appalachian dude, you may want to ignore my post, I don't have any real mountains here.Europe here, but terrain Ive passed is close to areas in sketchiness youve mentioned - my experience after this barefoot experiment and then wearing shoes (besides gaining a lot of stability in every situation) when going on more sketchy short hikes on steep downhills if I want to be fluid I had to heel strike, it felt far more natural to heelstrike, better term is heelSTRIDE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL8j_x5B4NcWalking downhill toes first just felt slow and inefficient...?
