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I'm out here hiking in New Hampshire with the Columbia Powerdrain [Cool].
So far the only thing that I would suggest a little bit different which would be nice
is to have some
water socks that line the interior,
because as you're walking on the dry areas, it
does tend to get debris inside of it.
You could wear socks but that would kind of defeat the purpose because they're meant to go in and
out of the water. So when you put them in the water, the water actually
soaks into the shoe, and it drains out through these holes.
This is the tread on the bottom.
Pretty grippy;
when it's wet, it still does get a little slick on
steeper-angled rocks. Could maybe use a stickier rubber
in water.
They do dry out really quickly. I've
soaked them right in the water in the river
and put them up on a rock to dry in the sun
and they were dry within ten to fifteen minutes. You can take the
inner linings out (the insoles) and
dry them as well.
Basically, the water comes through—these are all holes—
and the water can just come through,
right through it into the sole.
You can see those are all see-through.
The shoe right here—
that area—is
a mesh liner
and the water can soak right through
into the bottom
and drain out through the sides; also this is all
able to be
permeated with water so
it's pretty
good at draining.
Did a little bit of trail running
in them today
and they felt pretty stable.
Really lightweight. The conditions on the trail are—like you can see behind me—
pretty graded,
but there are sections of rocks
and
I was going over some
pretty tight
tree roots and
kind of doing some jumps and things like that as well. Felt stable,
very breathable,
really cool.
My feet don't feel hot in them, especially since I'm a sandal/flip flop wearer, so I don't even like wearing shoes but
these are my go-tos when I need something that does cover up my feet.
They're super easy to put on;
you can almost do them one-handed with the cinch-down.
There's the tightening.
And it's nice—it's got this little strap that will
cinch down the end so it's not hitting you; the older version
would hit your leg while you were running.
So you can tighten them up quite a bit
and get them
cozy on your feet. When your feet start to get hot and sweat, or if there's any water around
and it gets on it, it automatically
pushes those "omnirings" up to
absorb that water and then cool your feet down, and I love having that cooling
effect as well.
Overall, I really like these shoes and the overall design of them. They have really fun
playful colors and Columbia's doing a lot with their
design and their technology. So far so good with the Powerdrain [Cool] shoes from Columbia.