Shoes for Hawaii rainforest/creeks/mud

What island you on?

Oahu

I’ve used the Salomon Techamphibian Water Shoes (they’ve aparently upgraded them to version 2.0 now) for what my brothers and I call “Riversing”(traversing rivers). We rock hop, swim, walk through sandy bottoms, etc and they’ve been solid. Sticky soles when needed.

They’re not so comfortable without socks so I can’t say for hiking long distances, but I wore them for 2 months traveling around SE Asia, bare foot and socked, and never got a blister or sweaty feet.

You might wear them with thin socks like Jardine suggests.

Normal footwear in the cold wet mossy NSW canyons are Dunlop Volleys. In fact, I believe they are mandatory in some bushwalking clubs.

Cheers

Gregory, I have spent many fine summers backpacking Hawaii and usually end up with a pair of Reef flipflops. If I am doing a any cliffy area's such as Napali I wear my Choco's they are a bit heavy but still great for hiking. Im considering using them on my AT hike. I did a test with them on the TRT and had no complaints. One final thought in the deep valleys I tend to go barefoot it is Hawaii afterall, go native. Ali

Did the Kalalau trail back in November with my Inov8 Flyroc 310's and they worked great. The high flexibility was very welcome on the unstable terrain.

I used Montrail Vitesses on the Kalalau trail, but would have hurt myself on some of those sluice – esque sections without poles.

When dayhiking I used a Montrail amphibious shoe. I didn't use socks and the small gravel tore my feet up over the course of the day.

I'm not sure what to recommend!

i've done kalalau 10 times or so and my weapon of choice has been salomon xa pro 3d's. worked amazingly well.

on the days we've done off trail rock hopping, i opt for techamphibians. worn out a couple pair on kauai alone…