^ I had a bad first few days with Bedrocks, but it wasn’t a shoe/foot incompatibility issue, just a bad hard edge on a wing. After soaking them a few hikes through creeks and walking them dry, they were fine. (And for 120 bucks I wasn’t going to give up after only a couple of miles on them.) Now they’re basically all I wear day-to-day. If I had to constantly alter my footwear to make it wearable, that would put it in the “sucks” category for me.
As a side note, I have the sculpted footbed Bedrocks, and they’re not at all deeply sculpted; more a couple of toe-dimples dug out. I work in a woodshop with a concrete floor and I frequently wear them standing at a bench all day, although my feet can ache the next morning.
I think the Bedrocks are the best of the barefoot, huarache-style sandals, but they’re still murder when they’re wet and slippery on any sort of challenging terrain. (The soles have good traction, it’s the foot-shoe interface that’s the issue.) I understand there is careful emphasis on “dry, loose conditions” in that review, but I would have liked to have seen at least a sentence or two on wet, nasty, slippery conditions, like sidehilling under a packload, or walking through deep mud, or creekwalking – because gear shouldn’t only be considered in ideal circumstances, and bedrocks become a different sandal then.
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