Adding straps to Wally Clogs

What about cutting a slit between a couple of the holes near the edge on each side, then using a voile ski strap as a heel buckle? Plus it’s multi use—there’s a million things you could do with it when not fording a stream.

5.6 oz each for size 13

So if I’m understanding, that’s 11.2 oz’s for a pair of size 13’s?

Yup, as much as a single LiteRider crock.

Regarding the ski straps, I think that if I cut into the plastic it will tear laterally fairly quickly. These are obviously cheaply made so it is not the end of the world, as long as it does not happen in the middle of nowhere.

That makes sense re: the tearing. You could tie a couple small loops of cord into holes on either side (that is, one loop per side) then run the ski strap through that, but if it’s cheap plastic it may still tear.

So if I’m understanding, that’s 11.2 oz’s for a pair of size 13’s?

Boyan, one more time please…

Double-checked.  5.8 oz per clog, 11.6 oz for the pair.

Wally’s also has tennis shoes that are around $10 that weigh a similar amount or less.  Not the highest quality, but for low use camp shoes they are great.

Double-checked.  5.8 oz per clog, 11.6 oz for the pair.

Wally’s also has tennis shoes that are around $10 that weigh a similar amount or less.  Not the highest quality, but for low use camp shoes they are great.

Thank you!

I have a 13 yo pair of Croc’s (an early model w/out holes) that weigh 10.5 oz’s for a size 10.

Wanting to reduce that weight, a couple weeks ago I picked these up:

My size 43’s (9.5) weigh 6.6oz’s for the pair… they’re really quite nice and I highly recommend them.

Those wally clogs already have holes in them. If you used three or more of them to anchor each end of some cording, you could probably distribute the stress enough that it wouldn’t tear right through.

If you don’t trust the integrity of the upper material, you could drill into the sole and use that as an attachment point.  I’m thinking a rope would end up being lighter than Velcro and possibly less irritating on your heel.  You could add a material to give some width where the strap makes contact with your heal.

At first I was thinking thread the rope through the upper then go down through the sole.  I worry that a rope inside the upper would bother your foot.  So then I thought drill through the sole at an angle from the outside to the bottom. Then my concern went to: if there is rope on the bottom of the sole it will very quickly wear out.  So my last thought was drill into the sole (but not through it) from the outside in.  Make it about an inch deep.  Thread the rope in and then glue it.

Use a rope that has some stretch to it (like thin bungee cord) and it will secure on your foot better.  Well that is my stream of consciousness; I hope you find it useful from a brainstorming perspective. I haven’t tried any of these things I am mentioning.

Wanted something light and compact for both camp and fording.  At Walmart found some Red Sox sandals.  Liked them because no straps between the toes.  Here they are folded and packed – total 8.1 oz, including some neoprene anklet sox:

Here they are unpacked, with the neoprene anklet sox for crossing frigid streams:

Note that the large flap closures were not only comfortable, but also projected backward enough to sew in some 3/4″ twill tape heel straps with small acetal separating buckles that tighten everything up, and keep the soles from flip-flopping.
The EVA grid pattern on the sole bottoms is shown in this photo.  With hard rubber, the sole would be slippery; but with the EVA, rocks and stones in stream beds are absorbed enough to grip:

They fit quite well with either the anklets or medium weight sox:

That’s an anklet dive sock on the left, and a medium weight sock on the right.

The flaps are built into the soles; but granted, these are shower shoes, and there’s no telling how they will hold up.  So it goes with a lot at Walmart.  So would not recommend these for any thing remotely like a triple crown hike,  but OK for crossings for a week or two.  May also take a scale into Walmart and do some weighing of the lightest sneakers, as was suggested.

Guess the biggest advantage is being able to keep the hiking shoes and feet dry on shorter trips, and be able to wear them in camp as well with hiking sox, or even with the anklets for a short trip outside the tent in soaking wet grass.  The worst that could happen would be the sandals blowing out, and having to do it all again with the hiking shoes.  In camp, the anklets would still be good over the hiking sox in wet grass.

Up till now, haven’t found anything as light as 8.1 oz for the pair, including the neoprene anklets.   So wanted to come up with something light for the streams.  Here they are packed in a stuff sack: