>>1908133I’ve been wearing trail runners exclusively for all my hiking and backpacking adventures since the early 2000’s. My ankles have weakened a lot in the past 8 years or so but I just started using trekking poles and I’m fine and dandy. I wore theses Cascadias on a 80 mile, 5 day 4 night backpacking trip over the summer. I will only wear boots if I’m doing cold weather /out/ activities.