Weight: 234 g. (8.25 oz)
Mods: None yet--I might spray waterproofing on these if I decide to take them
Alternatives: No camp shoes
Camp shoes are shoes you carry with you to change into at the end of the day and wear around camp. Ultralight purists usually don't take any camp shoes and, instead, just wear their trail runners until bedtime. Some of them have rigged up 1 ounce camp shoes out of disposable insoles and a piece of string or foam duct taped into a sandal, but I don't think those will work for me right now. If anything can be called a "standard" camp shoe, it's the classic Croc, but they are so bulky, and I don't like having things hanging off my pack, so I'm considering taking these along as camp shoes instead:
I got them on clearance at Famous Footwear or someplace like that. At just over 8 oz, they aren't too bad weight-wise, and they squish flat, so they're easy to pack. The soles are pretty soft but strong enough to protect my feet around camp.
These aren't truly necessary, but if it's a wet spring, I would like to be able to get out of the wet trail runners at the end of the day and give them a fighting chance to get partly dried out while I'm in camp. Flip flops generally aren't good as camp shoes because you can't wear them with socks (unless you have those toe socks) and they do nothing to keep dirt off your feet, so these would be better than flip flops. I'd also like to have something other than my hiking shoes to wear in the showers at the state parks along the way. These are easier to slip on than hiking shoes for any midnight bathroom runs, too.
OK, maybe I've convinced myself to take them along...at least for now.
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