Each year I purchase new hiking shoes and test them in the Dusty Hikers Advanced Footwear Research Laboratory, aka my garage and hiking trails. After all this experience, I can safely say that hiking...

Good hiking shoes are essential for anyone serious about covering serious miles on the trail. New hiking shoes will provide superior performance over all other shoe types for hiking but do they...

At Dusty Hikers, I purchase hiking shoes and test them against each other. One of the tests compares the relative stickiness of the outsoles of the shoes. A shoe's ability to grip a surface...

The Vasque Satoru Trail LT is the best zero-drop, super lightweight hiking shoe that no one is talking about. This shoe almost won my annual hiking shoe review. While everyone else is talking about...

The Salomon X Ultra Pioneer Aero was my attempt at giving Salomon another shot. Salomon enjoys a cult following, and as one who reviews hiking footwear for a hobby, I know my negative thoughts on...

I tested the Merrell Moab Speed against other shoes across several metrics, and they won this year's best-hiking shoe competition. The Merrell Moab Speed provides out-of-the-box performance and...