This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Adidas, the new Terrics Freehiker.

A piece of gear that was conceived as a response to the fact that there's no such thing as a through hiking shoe.

Thruhikers are all basically wearing trail runners.

That comes with certain sacrifices in terms of stability, in terms of protection.

This is Marcus Westerberg, a product designer who worked on the free hiker.

As we basically saw kind of an interesting challenge for us to kind of merge the knowledge that we have of making hiking shoes with the knowledge that we have from

from making running shoes and kind of see if we could bring these two worlds together.

With the free hiker, Adita set out to make a shoe that would feel good on your feet as you

hiked and last longer on the trail than a traditional running shoe.

And it turns out your foot is already really good at walking, so mostly they got out of its way.

They added their proprietary boost foam for cushioning,

and then made an upper that sort of feels like wearing a sock.

So it's very comfortable, it's very well fitted,

and it's very lightweight.

The result is a really impressive, really good looking shoe.

I've been kind of living in mine.

Because even though I live in a city when I'm not in the trail,

I do walk around a lot. and I think this shoe kind of fits in those

both worlds in a really nice way by by basically taking those same things that make the

shoe great for hiking also makes it relevant in a street in an urban environment.

I've been seeing the shoe popping up on design blogs and fashion blogs and things like that.

Are you, is that what you mean by relevant?

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