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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.Review: Bestard Canyon Guide
Wed 15 May, 2013 4:22 pm
For the last year of two I’ve been on the search for the perfect canyoning shoe. Seeking out the right balance between exceptionally grippy sole and hard wearing rubber, between strength, support and comfort, and for a shoe that works equally well on long, hard, scrubby walk-ins as it does in a slippery, wet, aquatic canyon setting.
Now the Bestard Canyon Guide might not quite reach that lofty pinnacle, but it is by far the best all-round canyoning shoe that I’ve tested so far. Sure, it has a few minor flaws but I think it’s fair to say I’ve totally fallen in love with these shoes (now to convince an Australian retailer to stock them…).
While it is primarily a canyoning shoe, the company markets it for a range of other activities where slippery or wet conditions are met, like caving, rafting, kayaking, or even bushwalking in wet / muddy environments (perhaps it's worth a try on certain Tassie tracks!). It's also the only canyoning shoe with a specific model for women.
I’ve given this shoe an extremely hard workout during the review process — far tougher than we have for any other brand — because I’m still trying to find a major flaw. Over the last canyoning season, my pair did somewhere in the vicinity of 60 canyons — everything from easy day trips to multi-day epics — and they’ve still got a little life left in them.
Full review: http://fatcanyoners.org/bush-guide/best ... yon-guide/
Now the Bestard Canyon Guide might not quite reach that lofty pinnacle, but it is by far the best all-round canyoning shoe that I’ve tested so far. Sure, it has a few minor flaws but I think it’s fair to say I’ve totally fallen in love with these shoes (now to convince an Australian retailer to stock them…).
While it is primarily a canyoning shoe, the company markets it for a range of other activities where slippery or wet conditions are met, like caving, rafting, kayaking, or even bushwalking in wet / muddy environments (perhaps it's worth a try on certain Tassie tracks!). It's also the only canyoning shoe with a specific model for women.
I’ve given this shoe an extremely hard workout during the review process — far tougher than we have for any other brand — because I’m still trying to find a major flaw. Over the last canyoning season, my pair did somewhere in the vicinity of 60 canyons — everything from easy day trips to multi-day epics — and they’ve still got a little life left in them.
Full review: http://fatcanyoners.org/bush-guide/best ... yon-guide/
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Re: Review: Bestard Canyon Guide
Wed 15 May, 2013 7:26 pm
I had to read that name twice. It's almost worth taking up canyoning just to have a reason to get a pair of those things. Or do more caving. And more kayaking.
Hmmmmmmmm . . . Maybe . . . .
Hmmmmmmmm . . . Maybe . . . .
Re: Review: Bestard Canyon Guide
Wed 15 May, 2013 10:39 pm
north-north-west wrote:I had to read that name twice.
Yep. I took the pi ss out of it before realising the company name is the family name of the people who set it up and still run it. Awkward... although not as awkward as having that surname! (When they have babies they're bringing another little bestard into the world!)
Despite the odd name, it's a great shoe. I haven't used it caving, but I think it would perform really well.
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