Sycamore Canyon Hike - Columbia Hikers Break-in

Today was the first hike of the year. Took long enough to get up and get out there. Took the same trail as the 24-Dec-2010 hike. Since my old Nike hiking shoes did not survive the Hanakapiai Trail (back in August), it was due that I get some new hiking shoes. I did not do too much research, rather settled on a pair of Columbia Hikers. Not sure which style they are.

I wear a 10.5 regular. While wearing these around the neighborhood walking the dogs, I've noticed that I get some foot pain. Maybe they need more breaking in. Hope that is the case. For this hike, these were laced very loosely, not enough that my feet would move around too much, but just to that point. Overall, it worked out ok. I'll keep them. I do notice that the soles do not flex a whole lot. That may be the cause of the foot pain around the neighborhood.

The hike was pretty good. Parking lot was full, first time that happened. Started out at 10:50 and got back a little after the noon hour. I marked each stream crossing with a waypoint just to bring some excitement. Unfortunately, these did not upload into google maps, bummer. There is another application I can use to get those out, though it's on the PC. Other than that, plenty of sun, sunscreen came in handy and reset the gps before heading out. This time I believe it was almost a 5 miler. Good news is that I found a geocache on the side of that bridge.