Hey everybody my name's richard they were checking out the trail light evo gtx sam berlin now these are made out of. A single piece new buck leather upper. That is gonna give you great protection against wear and water keeping your feet protected on the inside and nice and dry. Which is great now some of gore-tex membrane in there too so now only we'll keep your feet protect from outside ls but also allow your feet to breathe if you're wearing in its warmer situations those metal eyelets here in front of. Really lock everything in good padding around that collar for support then you got that veer am outsole here on the bottom with those triangular lugs you see throughout guy can keep you steady over all different types of surfaces be. Protected out on the trail with these awesome boots somberly.

Hi I'm brian hall from vas footwear and. This is the mantra 2.0 yeah we're working with v berm on this product has a very aggressive outsole very defined. Lugs a defined heel break for breaking on loose train and down hills it's a. Little bit of a unique product in that it uses polyurethane for a mid sole and a low shoe so incredibly stable we find. That people if they're traveling pinch. Traveling anything that where they want the stability we want to take one shoe to travel in and hike in that this is really I'll go to you for them we definitely wanted full coverage leather here for durability and long. Life but we did break it up with mesh panels in the toe and in the tongue so it is quite breathable I'm quite comfortable in hotter temperatures once. Again this is the mantra 2.0 retails for one twenty-nine ninety-five and is available at your local retailer. You.

These are the women's x ultra mid 3. Cortex hiking boots by salomon they. Strike the balance for me between a heavy bulky back packing boot and a. Lightweight hiker they offer the support i need while shouldering a heavy pack, but they're lightweight and flexible so. My feet stay comfortable their one boot. That does it all so general outdoor enthusiasts will love these boots because they'll support your feet on that five-day backpacking trip, but they'll be just as comfortable for day hikes they are an ideal option for fast. Packers too who want a responsive boot that won't slow them down starting from. The ground up the kanto grip rubber outsole has aggressive lugs to dig into. Uneven terrain salomon puts a lot of. Design into their mid soles, and they refer to the structure of the boot as a. Chassis just like a car on these boots. You get Solomon's advanced chassis which. Means that they're built low to the ground for maximum stability the e va. Foam cushions each step while a lightweight molded shank gives the. Stability your feet need for long days of hiking this minimizes over pronation. — which affects not only your feet but. Your knees hip and your back on top of. All of that you have a cushy or tho light sock liner which can be removed for your. Own insoles the upper is completely. Waterproof with the gore-tex performance. Comfort membrane gore-tex material. Breathes by letting warm air escape but. It can't do its job of ventilating if there are stuffy materials sewn on top. Of it so salomon is using highly breathable textile materials so your. Feet can breathe in the higher wear. Areas they put more durable materials so. These will last a long time the toe cap upfront protects from kicked. Rocks and the rigid heel counter and the. Back supports your heels on uneven terrain i wear a size 8 and a half in almost every. Boot and these fit perfectly with a pair. Of lightweight hiking socks i love that Solomon builds these on a women's specific last for the best fit possible. I found plenty of room from my toes. Display in the front with a snug fit throughout to prevent hot spots they are. Lightweight supportive and waterproof. Lace them up for your next adventure they are the women's extra mid 3. Gore-tex hiking boots by salomon thanks. For watching if you have additional questions about the gear you just saw please feel free to visit that country edge comm and get in touch with me or. One of our other gear specialists we. Also have technical specs about that gear on the product pages of our website and often times we have bonus videos if. You like our channel please subscribe.

So this is a review of the second pair. Of these shoes which i bought this is the salomon x altra 2 gtx hiking shoe. And this is like i said the second pair over owned i bought the first pair a couple years ago and i did a comprehensive review on them then that can be you can find out the link below and so this is my review of the second. Pair of shoes which i absolutely love i can't say enough about issues they are fantastic one of the features i love. Most about them is the comfort a of them. I'm straight out the box no issues at. All the original pair I've got I've had maybe two and a half years I've walked literally thousands of miles in them and. Not just a casual flat walking, and we're talking to the mountain walking here up and down huge hills and really. Really testing them out and I'll show you in fact I'll show you know this is that this pair here have probably done a couple hundred miles I'll just put this to one side this is one of the original. Shoes which i did my review of a couple. Years ago and that's that's their net and i still use them everyday they're sort of left by the front door i just jump in them i don't even bother doing the laces up there's a big entry here jump in these hack out into the guard and you can see they're covered in mud and all sorts of stuff but if you look now that is a tread that's two years old and it's not a couple thousand. Miles it's pretty worn down there's not a lot in there's only maybe two or three mils of tread left here but at the back totally worn down the hill here but. Realistically that is still a totally usable shoe and very comfortable and if. You look at the things like areas that we're around the inside of the heel at the back here the small area of we're just on the inside here but apart from that the rest of the shoe has shown brilliant strength I've had to. Replace the laces on these once the. Locking mechanism just broke but this is easy to do i bought this online for a few pounds and you can buy this new. Locking mechanism the salomon one with the laces it's fine but anyway that's you there that's the old version try to. Get the same color again couldn't quite get it got as close as i could that's the new version there i think i. Prefer the old colors a little bit more i like the highlighted green details here i think that's that really sets the shoe off a little bit not so sure about the little sort of orangey inserts in here a little bit of color detail it's nice i did prefer the old colors but this is about as close as i could get so anyway this shoe lets's talk about it quickly like i say some new shoes are. Fantastic this one is a probably one of their top of the range hiking shoes and what makes this great is if you look at the shoe from the outside we'll start with the sole it's got the contra grip. So which solving use on a lot of their shoes but this is a fantastic design it's diamond pattern design great for. Downhill great for uphill there's really good traction on it you're not going to. Slip and it's the whole way along the sole you've got a really good heel area and a really good toe area and if you look around the back of the heel here it's quite a bit of an overhang so you're getting a lot more traction a lot of sole on the ground here for the size of the shoe and if you look at the front now this is one my favorite features this box section here is absolutely. Brilliant you can kick rocks all there you want with this is so built up all around the front here really heavy-duty box section on it and it's. Almost it almost feels it's so hard you. Can't press it in it's almost like a construction boot where it's so. Tough you can't push it in the rest the shoe is very soft obviously this is where canvas shoe but this box session really tough great a great feature on this shoe i always go for the. Gore-tex ones they sell this without gore-tex and this shoe retails for about. 85 pounds and that's in the go tech version my trail running shoes i don't generally go for gore-tex because of a mount running and i run through water what happens is the water fills the shoe as you're running through deep water and then can't come out so you actually run around with wet with feet soaking in a wet shoe walking not so. Much i can be a little bit more precisely where i put my feet and i don't generally get the shoe getting. Water going into the top where you're running you can't really be that choosy but trail walking i can be a bit more choosy and i mean these shoes will take water right up to the edge of the heel cup here before they get wet this is the other feature that the salomon do is they do this integrated tongue so you can see all the way to here the tongue. Is all one piece and if you look inside the shoe i mean they you can wear issues out of socks if you want to insert here this is in a zener mesh here it's almost like a sock as you see the tongue comes all the way up to the top and is really totally watertight. Up until here and being gore-tex as well it does hold the water out um solid features okay right well first. Of all i mean if your room is you're familiar with the solon range of shoes you'll be familiar with they're they're quick tile a system i mean it's really it's very strong you can replace them. And i have broken a couple of these mechanisms before these are the plastic mechanisms i have broken a couple of these, and they wear out a little bit they start to creak after a while as well which is a bit annoying but realistically they are absolutely brilliant so easy to do up and once you do tighten them up you pull them through you can then feed all the excess into. This little pocket underneath the tongue so just underneath the tongue here a little pocket you can put all the bits of laces in so that it doesn't get in the way at all so there you go so once you're out hiking walking through undergrowth and stuff you're not going to catch a lace um you know normal lace-up shoes you walk through the undergrowth you can catch it on a twig and it will undo it so if it'll pull you back so that they're now really nice little feature everything sucked away and it keeps the keeps a lot more streamlined um a decent pull tab at the. Back getting the shoe on and off generally don't really need that because once the shoes undone the opening is so large on these it's brilliant you can just literally like i say with the old ones i just slipped them on and off like slippers and well you're out camping a nice feature is obviously you don't want to wear your shoes inside a tent or inside a hut that you're staying in you leave them by the front door they open up so large with this area here you can literally just slip them on and off so if you're for example you're going outside and you're carrying some pots and pans you're gonna wash up you don't know then put those down to then put your shoes on and all the rest you leave these by the door slip them on and you can walk around like slippers as long as you want in that do your washing up outside come back in and kick them off again so really easy to get on and off and that makes these really convenient. Shoe not just a decent walking shoe but really convenient as well and if you are going to be out camping you know a pair. Of these is actually brilliant they used. To be you know people used to wear high. Boots and that was there was brilliant you know the high boot was a great shoe really stable and supported the shoe, and they do this actually in a high boot version as well but more people are now going for the straight walking shoe and i don't know if stability is as much. Of a feature now these days as people thought it was obviously if it's really rugged terrain you're carrying heavy packs maybe that's more important but see the great thing with this shoe is that i can wear this on the plane I'm going somewhere i can when i get there i can wear it around town i can wear out hiking is just a really nice looking shoe so it's not a boot definite issue. And that i think is a nice feature that it's it you can wear at any point during. Your holiday um this i could go on about. This shoe forever but you know a couple of other features which obviously make this really important it's got this porthole insert now all the salomon shoes have this shoe insert in that comes with them and it's a sort of. Orthopedic insert it doesn't really do a. Lot it's got a little bit of a raised cup at the side and some air vents at. The front i they're nice they're comfortable what is good though is if you do have inserts where you do have orthotics that you prefer to put into the shoe this comes out really easily i know some shoes have these sort of stuck in a little bit more in the hard to get in and out this comes out really easily and also for cleaning the shoe i mean i use these all the time i regularly clean them you know want to keep them looking good and usable so you can take the insert out but once it takes it out you. Have a good idea of the build quality inside this shoe you can see that the stitching in there is really precise the. Shoe is there's not a seam inside that's. Going to get in your way all round the inside here there're no seams there this is also a one continuous piece and this material is a really lovely material it's very. Very soft hard wearing doesn't cause any blisters I've never had any problems with issues at all i suppose I'm quite lucky I'm normally i can normally get away without too many issues with most shoes I'm not prone to blisters some people are but i have to say this is probably one of the most comfortable shoes I've ever worn so. Realistically that's it i mean it's a it's a it's a brilliant shoe i think it looks great they sell this in so many colours now I've seen this online in about 30 different colours they've got a new version now which is a nubuck leather and i can't remember they call. That one but it's its a leather version of this shoe which is really smart they do it in a tan leather and a black leather obviously highlighted details around the. Lace pulls at the front here which are in the in different leather colors as well which is really nice i personally like the canvas ones the gore-tex material. Probably less upkeep every so often i put in your gore-tex. Spray coating on just to keep the gore-tex breathing in the right direction leather ones may be a little bit more work but if you're suddenly looking something a bit smarter maybe the leather one would suit and be a better shoe this for me though is. Possibly the most perfect walking shoe. There is and you know little features. Like i say like the i then the metal. Lace pulls through here very strong and. You can see how the material is stitched how it pulls through from all these different angles so you're going to get a really tight shoe some people feel that you can't get these lace locks tight enough oh god i can get these so tight that my feet hurt so there're no issues with that and the heel cup it's a it's a slightly dumb race heel at the. Back here holds the foot nice and tight but not so high that you're going to get kitty's problems on a know some people cut slightly cut down the back here just to leave the pressure don't need to do that with a shoe it's a really nice fitting shoe so there we go so that is the salomon x altra. — second variation of its — gtx possibly. My favorite shoe and I'm definitely. Going to give this one a 5 star rating.

Hey it's darwin i wanted to do a little. Product review of a new hiking shoe that. I've been trying out lately as some of. You might know I'm a huge meryl moab fan. I've been hiking in for years i went. Through three pairs on the appalachian trail this year and got a lot of people. To convert over to them but i figured I'd try a little something different since I've been in those for so long and i chose to try out the salomon x altra. This is Solomon's actual hiking shoe. They're really known for their trail runners but this guy is geared solely. For hiking so they kind of beat it up a. Little bit looks very similar to their trail runner especially with the quick lace in here i really like this system. All the years that i didn't triathlon i was used to the quick laces so it's really cool to see a hiking shoe with the same thing so let's get into the. Shoe first of all this shoe comes in at. 32 ounces on my scale now i wear an. Eleven and a half so that is 32 ounces. Four and eleven and a half which comes in right at two pounds. Some really great key features of. This shoe is the porthole sock liner. That they went with on the inside of here really comfortable there's. No stitching on the inside so your foots not rubbing up against anything which is. Really great if you're doing any type of long-distance i can definitely something you want definitely helps with blisters and the advanced chassis sense of fit. Upper that they went with it really hugs your foot really fits nice like a glove. My foot doesn't seem to move around a lot in it which is obviously definitely good against blisters or anything like that now they went with instead of going. With a be room sole like a lot of hiking shoes now they went with what they called the contra grip system um get some okay lugs on here not as hardcore. As a lot of hiking shoes but lately. Hiking in it i found that i really liked. The traction really liked the grip of this sole so maybe it's something new. Maybe it's something just as good as be broom i definitely have to put a lot more research and a lot more hiking on to it to really see how i end up liking that as far as wet conditions. Snow ice stuff like that but so far I've. Been pretty happy with it salomon also decided to put this little rock bumper up here on the nose of it so. Definitely helps against some heavier rocks going downhill or kind of smacking your toe on anything i really like that little feature as well so yeah all. Around it is a really great shoe I've done a few hikes with it haven't. Done any extended long-distance hiking with it I'm still kind of on the fence if whenever i returned to the appalachian trail in 2016 if I'm going. To go with my Mario odds or if I'm going to go something different so time will tell on that but as of right now I'm really enjoying this sheet really enjoying some of the smaller day hikes and stuff I'm going on with it so check it out if you get a chance that is the salomon ultra x they also make this in a. Waterproof version and they make it in a. Gore-tex version this is the non waterproof and non gore-tex I'm not a big fan since the kind of. Conditions that i hike in especially on the appalachian trail the inside of those shoes get wet they don't dry out this being a nice vintage shoe it'll get. Wet it'll get soaked but it'll dry out a lot faster so yeah again check it out. Leave me some comments below like or. Dislike my video subscribe to my channel. If you already haven't and as always thank you so much for watching. You.

Hi I'm brian hall from vas footwear and. This is the mantra 2.0 yeah we're working with v berm on this product has a very aggressive outsole very defined. Lugs a defined heel break for breaking on loose train and down hills it's a. Little bit of a unique product in that it uses polyurethane for a mid sole and a low shoe so incredibly stable we find. That people if they're traveling pinch. Traveling anything that where they want the stability we want to take one shoe to travel in and hike in that this is really I'll go to you for them we definitely wanted full coverage leather here for durability and long. Life but we did break it up with mesh panels in the toe and in the tongue so it is quite breathable I'm quite comfortable in hotter temperatures once. Again this is the mantra 2.0 retails for one twenty-nine ninety-five and is available at your local retailer. You.

This week's pick of the week is the. Arc'teryx conceal approach shoe the conceal is lightweight but still offers exceptional support and protection a. Vibram mega sole grip and front and rear lugs means excellent traction in mud and. Dirt more rounded bumps on the sole provide traction on rock it has a very. Precise fit so excels at climbing especially scrambling moves where precision is key a tpu mid foot chassis. And evi a foam mid sole provides. Stability on uneven terrain giving you confidence a gusseted tongue helps. Prevent debris ending up in the shoe and four millimeter thick authors liked 3d. Molded insert pads the bottom of your. Foot for comfort the arc'teryx conceal approach shoe is the ultimate shoe if you're looking for something lightweight that still offers maximum protection. You.

Hi katie here is get out their magazine. This is my review of the arc'teryx conseal fl approach shoe the conseils. Have lots of great features my top three. Would definitely be vibram soles nice. Long lacing so you can get just the. Right tension and to grab loops to help. You really get your foot in there the. Con seals are super awesome they're really grippy issues are great they'll. Totally get you to the top or the bottom of your climbing area I've been rock hopping climbing and even. Hiking in these shoes and overall. They're really awesome shoes they're. Lightweight they're super grippy, and they're you know decently comfortable on your foot you're nice and lined on the inside for me i. Find these shoes fit really narrow so. They are they're cut pretty. Narrow and i have a very wide foot so i. Am I finding them to be a little bit pinchy right here at the widest point. And i also found the sizing to be like. Totally out of whack with most other shoe companies for example i usually wear a 39 and that would equate too about. An eighth or an eight and a half these are a seven and a half us, but they are a. 39 and a third european so i got the 39. 1/3 thinking that would fit me i usually wear a 39 and i don't mind having a little extra room for my toes but my big toe on my big foot only comes. Up to right here so I'm not really. Getting to take advantage of the little rubbery end of the toe and when i. Have been climbing in them they my feet. To sort of slide forward and backward a little bit i also found the back gave me. A fair bit of pressure when i was taking in them it's not really their intended use so do. Take that with a grain of salt also i think there's extra pressure because the soul is quite stiff and it's intended. To be that way of course so that you can edge and smear and you know really make. The most out of these shoes. Did i say yet that i love the color is awesome it's like great teal color goes with lots of things it's really subtle so I'm a really big fan, and they're just really like sleek and sexy looking so i have no. Complaint about shoe oh that it just. Doesn't quite fit my foot so that's all. Right there's lots of brands and styles out there so these shoes are awesome and. If they fit your feet you're probably gonna love them forget out their magazine I'm katie and that was my review of the arc'teryx concealed approach shoes for more info about these. Shoes head over to arc'teryx calm then. Be sure to subscribe and follow get out. There magazine on our youtube channel You.