Save Your Soles

YOU PROBABLY DON’T WANT TO WEAR THAT PAIR OF BLOWN out Converse All-Stars to amble anywhere farther than the corner store. For long treks, the proper footwear will support your dogs and grip the ground to prevent sore soles, painful blisters, and mangled ankles. These four choices will carry you for many miles over different types of terra firma.

- Rob Verger

1 Rocky paths

Stones and boulders threaten your feet with jammed and bruised toes. Salomon covered the fronts of the X Ultra 3 boots with molded rubber, creating an additional layer of protection between your tootsies and rocks or roots that come outta nowhere. The chevron-shaped lugs on the soles give you plenty of grip for ascending and descending.

2 Beach or riverbed