I think I have finally found foot heaven with the La Sportiva Bushido II. I had been searching for a shoe to fit my narrow foot and this is it. Ran around in them for five days in Hoover/Northern Yosemite virtually right out of the box and almost never thought about my feet. This is a revelation for me.
On to my question: these are not heavy duty shoes and I can live with the anticipated normal wear cycle. But I have an upcoming trip to the Lost Coast and I’m worried trekking through the sand will ruin these shoes. I don’t have a firm grasp on shoe anatomy but where the outer joins the upper, around the toe. It’s basically some sort of welded seam. I can just see that getting abraded, sand making its way in, and step by step basically sawing the shoe apart. I’ve had boots, admittedly old boots, fail in this fashion. O, the horror!
I’d love to have these shoes on the trip but not wanting to risk getting only two trips out of them. Honestly if that happened I’d take them back to REI but I don’t like being ‘that guy’. On the other hand it seems absurd that these shoes would fail after nine days of hiking.
I could wear my light hikers instead, but boo! Am I being overly paranoid about this?
