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Hiking the Sierra Nevada in KSO Treks

Ted, a veteran hiker and Five Fingers fan, seems to have found relief from Morton’s Neuroma by wearing KSO Treks while hiking and sent us his story:Eleven years ago I became addicted to hiking the high mountains of Southern California and the Sierr…

Ted, a veteran hiker and Five Fingers fan, seems to have found relief from Morton’s Neuroma by wearing KSO Treks while hiking and sent us his story:

Eleven years ago I became addicted to hiking the high mountains of Southern California and the Sierra Nevada. After a few weeks of long and steep weekend hikes, I began to feel an intense burning sensation in both of my forefeet. I had developed Morton’s Neuroma, an inflammation of the nerves that run between the metatarsal heads in the toes.

Wearing really wide shoes somewhat helped but did not eliminate the problem. A week of rest usually made the inflammation disappear, but after an hour or two of uphill hiking it would always reappear.

Once sufficiently inflamed, even standing in enclosed shoes was extremely painful. Only thong sandals or going barefoot would sometimes alleviate the pain. At other times the pain would persist after I’d finished hiking and was trying to get to sleep.

For ten years my ability to hike was constrained by this problem. Then last October I donned my first pair of FiveFingers, the KSO Trek. Since then I have completed dozens of hikes in the mountains and the desert, many on trails with a mile of elevation gain and loss. I have never in this period experienced a return of this symptom, nor had any other significant foot problem. I have also almost completely avoided wearing regular shoes.

Ted

Ted, great to hear that the KSO Treks worked for you and please send us some pictures from your hikes so we can add them to this post.

By Britt

Hailing from College Station, Texas (Home to Texas A&M!), I grew up running cross country. Believe it or not, I gave Justin the name for this site back in early 2009 but I didn't jump on the toe shoes bandwagon until a year later. I am also really into quadcopters and drones and have a blog called OddCopter.com.

3 replies on “Hiking the Sierra Nevada in KSO Treks”

Those are one well worn pair of Trek’s!! I’ve been thinking about hiking more and more, but my Trek’s need to stay pretty clean and sharp for my office (I’m only wearing VFF’s these days myself, and it’s the best thing ever!!) Of course, that just means I need to buy a new set to go hiking. Great to see people moving better with natural shoes!!

I’ve been hiking and backpacking a lot in Treks lately and for 95% of the trails I love them. The only time I have any problems with them is when there is sand on a rocky slope down. While my ‘regular’ trail runners grip well, Treks slide. I wish I knew how to fix that problems then I would be hiking in Treks 100% of the time.

I also have Morton’s neuroma – today I bought skeletoes (Fila) which are like the Five Finger Shoes – I ran on a treadmill without any pain – for the first time after over two years!

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