I admit I have worn Croc's for about 4 years, with socks or without. Dang nice for going outside without lacing up boots and taking back off in the mudroom
Yup. I use them as house slippers, and for trips to the curb. Surprisingly warm and very comfy - but they'll probably ruin your arches if you wear them a lot.
Hint: if yours get slick bottoms, just run a few beads of hot glue across a CLEAN and dry sole to restore traction.
Well funny this should come up, guy I work with commented on this just the other day. Think he said something like "Wearing Crocs is like a BJ in prison...feels great until you look down and realize you're gay."
No hole versions, though I don't think we have an actual crock version. Amazingly warm. Amazingly tough even in S Texas thorns trailing a wounded deer once...
Don't wear em much but around deer camp or the house. And generally always have at least one pair in the tent when hunting.
I bring them on my hunting trips. Pretty nice to air out my feet after a long day in my boots. Plus they weigh next to nothing and don't take up much room.
I also have a pair of Red Wing Pecos boots for Sunday go to meeting Also have a pair of Danner Rain Forest work boots, and a pair of Kenetreck Pac Boots but they don't see much use since I retired but no Crocks.
Crocs a referred to as "Gay Crocs" at my house because they're gayer than the 270 Winchester.
Yes, I wear them. Doctors orders for plantar fasciitis. I'm not supposed to walk barefoot and Crocs were recommended. I just wear them around the house.
I have a pair of camo crocs outside the front door that were a gift. Ugliest, gayest, most embarrassing shoes ever made, but for slipping on and walking on the broken glass like gravel in my driveway they are worth their weight in gold. I'm allowed, I'm a Californian...
When backpacking deep into rugged mountains, where every ounce matters the fuggerz weigh almost nothing and it sure beats putting on your big mountain boots in a remote mountain camp. No humans around to Shame you either...
I have two pair of crocs. Normal regular ones. And for cold weather, fur lined ones. They were $5 at Gander Mountsin on clearance, couldnāt pass them up. Great for going duck hunting in, slip out of them and into waders after driving in. Wife gets embarrassed when I wear them to town...
When backpacking deep into rugged mountains, where every ounce matters the fuggerz weigh almost nothing and it sure beats putting on your big mountain boots in a remote mountain camp. No humans around to Shame you either...
Okay.........I thought I might be the only one with crocs on my pack for āend of dayā wear during multi-day packing.
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I bet I have 6 pair. Furry ones for winter. Wear them a good bit. Camo ones are a major summer footwear. Still regret that Croc's quit making the ones that lace up ones. Still not going to bring a 270 in my house though.
Yes. Two pair. They are great for camping when old men like me get up in the night to step outside. On backpack trips they are good for wading streams as well.
I killed a moose after a Ā¾(?) mile approach and stalk across a swamp while wearing my original Crocs, which I bought due a post that Brad made on the backpack forum here. On a trip to northern BC I had taken along stocking foot chest waders and Crocs for launching and beaching our inflatable boat. We spotted a bull moose in the far edge of a swampy lake by the highway when we did not have our boat, but my waders and Crocs were in the back of our pick-up. Game on!
I even have croc boots for winter snowmachining trips. super light, come up past the ankles, don't know if they offer them anymore, but work great for trips to the outhouse in the snow.
When backpacking deep into rugged mountains, where every ounce matters the fuggerz weigh almost nothing and it sure beats putting on your big mountain boots in a remote mountain camp. No humans around to Shame you either...
I have a pair 'zactly like that. They are my house slippers for when I travel since I don't want to risk having my beaded, fur-trimmed slippers lost or stolen.
I've got a no holes version I bought first. Had read on a much earlier Crocs thread maybe 6 years ago to watch out for wet concrete when the sole is worn. Uber bad [bleep]. the bottom went out from under me in like .0002 seconds when I wasn't concentrating on walking like a Geisha on wet smooth surfaces.
Next pair is an all wheel drive model that grips in the wet and was used at the Campfire hog hunt last year. LtPowell did remind me not to step on prickly pear although he was wearing the same footwear. I'm guessing he knows what's up since I'm a boy from Nevada and we don't have that spiny shIIt in Nv.
Third pair is camo/lined that I used to feed the critters in winter and in the snow. They work great and are really warm when worn with wool socks.
Holy smokes - what a thread! Looks like the Crock wearers have organized and are campaigning for legitimacy - like a page from the LGBTXYZ play book. There is not a single pair of crocs to be seen in this entire county up here - even on a woman. One local outfitter told me some guy from down south somewhere showed up at the lodge with his .270 AND wearing camo crocs - so the rest of the hunters wouldn't sit next to him at meals and slept with one eye open.
Crocs a referred to as "Gay Crocs" at my house because they're gayer than the 270 Winchester.
Yes, I wear them. Doctors orders for plantar fasciitis. I'm not supposed to walk barefoot and Crocs were recommended. I just wear them around the house.
Dan
Dan,
If you buy them a couple of sizes larger (pending sock thickness) you can use Superfeet insoles with them.
I take Crocs on hunting trips and use them for quick trips outside. Handy as a shirt pocket....
It's been my experience that the only people who concern themselves about the stylishness of footwear for themselves or others tend to be women and homosexuals. Men tend to focus on utility. If it works, use it and f#@k what anyone thinks about it.
Bought a pair just to see what all the fuss was about. After the first pool day wearing them about I wound up with a hammer toe that had to be surgically addressed.
You can call me obstinate, but you will never convince me it was coincidental.
I read the entire thread. I feel I must share the accident my friend had happen due to his wearing Crocks.
My friend Don has been a fanatical upland bird hunter for over 60 years. While he reduced his number of dogs down to one, he was still doing quite well with his hunting at age 83.
He took to wearing Crocks around his house and when driving for the convenience and it pretty much ended his bird hunting days. He stepped out of his vehicle when he got home and took a step to have the Crock slip out from underneath him. It was the classic banana peel fall. He landed on his hip fracturing the femur a few inches below the socket. He had surgery and a pin installed TWICE. First pin was too short and moved around causing extreme pain. By the time he was back on his feet he with the new longer pin 4 months had gone by. THEN the leg got infected a year later. He was forced into the rehabilitation center once again, this time for 8 weeks for very aggressive antibiotic regimen every 8 hrs. He never regained his walking vigor.
I suppose someone could call his slipping bad luck . I think of it as a poor choice in footwear. Why risk falling? We all weigh the risk vs reward on so many things why take a chance? Sure he was older but he was one of those guys that would hike you into the ground up to his mid 70s. IMO he had several more years of walking behind his dog hunting quail.
I will remember this for the rest of my days. I was there with him enduring the pain of the first pin and his being moved to the hospital. I visited him and saw the ordeal he had to endure for the ease of using a pair of crappy shoes. Sure he was unlucky or was he? Footware choices do make a difference.
Are you sure the fall broke his hip rather than the hip breaking and causing him to fall? That happens a lot more than people know in elderly people. It happened to my 92 yo father.
What was the surface he stepped on to? I find my Crocs have very good traction although they don't have any ankle support (neither do tennis shoes).
When crocs first came out I figured they were so that we manly men didn't have to wear things like Teva. I should have known better when my first pair came as a package deal with a case of 270 ammo.
I read the entire thread. I feel I must share the accident my friend had happen due to his wearing Crocks.
My friend Don has been a fanatical upland bird hunter for over 60 years. While he reduced his number of dogs down to one, he was still doing quite well with his hunting at age 83.
He took to wearing Crocks around his house and when driving for the convenience and it pretty much ended his bird hunting days. He stepped out of his vehicle when he got home and took a step to have the Crock slip out from underneath him. It was the classic banana peel fall. He landed on his hip fracturing the femur a few inches below the socket. He had surgery and a pin installed TWICE. First pin was too short and moved around causing extreme pain. By the time he was back on his feet he with the new longer pin 4 months had gone by. THEN the leg got infected a year later. He was forced into the rehabilitation center once again, this time for 8 weeks for very aggressive antibiotic regimen every 8 hrs. He never regained his walking vigor.
I suppose someone could call his slipping bad luck . I think of it as a poor choice in footwear. Why risk falling? We all weigh the risk vs reward on so many things why take a chance? Sure he was older but he was one of those guys that would hike you into the ground up to his mid 70s. IMO he had several more years of walking behind his dog hunting quail.
I will remember this for the rest of my days. I was there with him enduring the pain of the first pin and his being moved to the hospital. I visited him and saw the ordeal he had to endure for the ease of using a pair of crappy shoes. Sure he was unlucky or was he? Footware choices do make a difference.
A prudent person would use something for what it's made for.
Don't run track races in steel toe work boots.
Don't go swimming wearing cowboy boots.
Etc., Etc.
For wearing around the house when you don't wanna put on heavy boots may be the Holy Grail.
There is another thing they are perfect for: Long airline travel. To take off at security, slip off during the flight, and weigh but a feather in luggage. Any long trip and it's what I wear.
There is another thing they are perfect for: Long airline travel. To take off at security, slip off during the flight, and weigh but a feather in luggage. Any long trip and it's what I wear.
You must not have ever been on a long flight.
The depth of urine in the airplane bath room after 13 hours is easily above the holes in a pair of crocs.
You know who wears them? Charleton McCallum of CMS Safaris, who is one of the best PHs in Africa today, wears them in the bush when he's hunting bull elephants.
Whether going to the local Safeway or flying half way around the world, I wear shoes that won't come off and that protect my feet if I have to run for my life across broken glass. There is not one whiff of exaggeration in the preceding sentence.
I am faintly amazed at friends who wear open toed sandals on airplanes and anyplace from the souk in Fez to downtown Los Angeles. FWIW a doctor I worked with in Africa told me that parasite worms enter the body through bare feet or access to bare feet on the ground.
I wear Crocs (actually cheap knock-offs) in my house and around camp sometimes, but not elsewhere. My moose stalk in Crocs was an exception. Mine are super slick on wet floors, etc.
I'm too old to give a darn what others think of my foot gear. I couldn't care less what they look like. Crocs are very comfortable and I wear them.
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Originally Posted by Tarkio
Wear them around the house. We have hundreds of square feet of hardwood floor and a cold garage floor so I wear them in the house regularly.
I also wear them when we are fishing on the boat. Handy to protect your feet when fishing in the summer.
They are also great camp shoes for in and out of the tent or cabin.
To quote Ray Stevens, I am secure in my manhood. I have no problem wearing crocs around when necessary and appropraite.
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Originally Posted by Hookset
It's been my experience that the only people who concern themselves about the stylishness of footwear for themselves or others tend to be women and homosexuals. Men tend to focus on utility. If it works, use it and f#@k what anyone thinks about it.
They aren't stylish enough to impress the ladies? If you need to depend on your shoes to impress the ladies, you have a lot more problems than just shoes.
You know who wears them? Charleton McCallum of CMS Safaris, who is one of the best PHs in Africa today, wears them in the bush when he's hunting bull elephants.
I wore them hunting pigs in Brazil, but caution that where there are thorns, they don't protect much.
There is another thing they are perfect for: Long airline travel. To take off at security, slip off during the flight, and weigh but a feather in luggage. Any long trip and it's what I wear.
You must not have ever been on a long flight.
The depth of urine in the airplane bath room after 13 hours is easily above the holes in a pair of crocs.
Been on plenty, but can't say as I've ever been in a airplane bathroom. I avoid most public rest rooms if at all possible.
There is another thing they are perfect for: Long airline travel. To take off at security, slip off during the flight, and weigh but a feather in luggage. Any long trip and it's what I wear.
You must not have ever been on a long flight.
The depth of urine in the airplane bath room after 13 hours is easily above the holes in a pair of crocs.
Been on plenty, but can't say as I've ever been in a airplane bathroom. I avoid most public rest rooms if at all possible.
13 hours from LA to Auckland NZ and people are leaving urine soaked foot prints coming back from the restroom.
Amazing how people will loose all dignity after 13 hours of being stuck in an airplane!
Yup love 'em. Even wear them groundhog hunting in the summer.
Wore them to the barn one day was just going to give the boys their supplements. Was so beautiful out I rode Suitor in the hills for 2 hrs in my Crocs . One thing for certain is won't ride the new horse Khanaan in Crocs, then again don't think I'll use anything but my riding boots .
My Crocs have the holes. I don't care what they look like. They're cooler and my feet don't sweat as much with them. They're great for irrigating, too, because the water drains out. They do have disadvantages when gardening, though. Dirt and rocks get in the holes. I might have to get a solid pair this spring for that.
I'm not going to judge a fellar on what he wears or what he shoots, but I do not own a pair of Crocs and have no desire to. However, I own a 270 and consider it to be the cats meow of centerfire cartridges.
Well funny this should come up, guy I work with commented on this just the other day. Think he said something like "Wearing Crocs is like a BJ in prison...feels great until you look down and realize you're gay."
I keep a camo pair in my trailer. They're great for in and out of the trailer, putzing around camp. If I get in the truck the boots go on. I use them around the house to dump the trash, take dogs out, check the mail and I putz around in the garage in them. They are way better than old fashioned slippers. I have the ones with the holes. My son says it's so all my dignity can leak out. He also saw on a show somewhere where they are called big rubber masterbater shoes so now they are called my BRMBs around here.
I've got 2 pairs of generics I bought about 20 years ago. Still wear them to take trash out, ride on the mower, and I take them hunting and fishing for when I need to get up in the middle of the night to pee. They are indespensable to me.
Crocs are like the ugliest girl in school that always put out.
Effective, no frills and gets the job done, you just don't want to be seen in town with them...
I live in the dirt. Mine are on the porch...no other footwear slips on and off so quickly and effectively and are great at keeping mud out of the house.
I ain't lacing up my loggers to run out to my truck for something cuz some dipshit calls me a phagg...š¤£
I've been wearing these "garden shoes" for years for quick outdoor errands to the barn or garden, fishing, etc. Leave them on the porch and just step into them. No holes and lug soles for traction. Around here, holes in your shoes is a welcome mat for fire ants.
Haha........that ain't a hog, that's a black possum.
That nasty little piggy needed to be put down. His right front leg was messed up bad. Looked like it had been shot before.
I may be the guilty party, since a couple of months ago I fired 3 shots at a sounder of pigs in the back of the ranch with my AR15. Recovered two out of the three, but the third eluded me. I know I heard a bullet hit meat each time I pulled the trigger, so this one probably caught the round I couldn't account for.
Crocs are like the ugliest girl in school that always put out.
Effective, no frills and gets the job done, you just don't want to be seen in town with them...
I live in the dirt. Mine are on the porch...no other footwear slips on and off so quickly and effectively and are great at keeping mud out of the house.
I ain't lacing up my loggers to run out to my truck for something cuz some dipshit calls me a phagg...š¤£
lmao Sal
I never could picture you layin in bed in a cold sweat wondering "what if those plastic shoes means I'm gay"
they're ugly as hell, but they work, they're the Glocks of shoes
I use them this time of year to slip on to go put the trash out, crank the truck, whatever. Prefer Reef flip flops but those donāt work too good when Iām wearing socks. Also, when itās 95 degrees and youāre cleaning up after a flood in mud and knee deep water thereās nothing better.
Jeez Sam, I thought they had border checkpoints on all the roads up there to keep skaters and their shoes out of your state!
Geno
PS, love the pj's and the dog sweater. The two whippets had to wear theirs on the walk today, they don't have much fur for 36F and a 5-10 mile an hour breeze. And I have a pair of skull pj's too.
PPS I have Sloggers, a USA made type of garden shoe for going out in the yard to pick up the dog crap and getting wood. I can tell you, they slip on wet/cold/frozen deck boards and lawns sometimes. Wonder if the local tire shop can sipe them
I do too, but it's been a pain in the butt trying to. We had back to back snows, about a foot in all, and it's been hard for an old fart like me to walk in it. Coyote tracks have been everywhere, but they are just not cooperating. As I've told the story on here before, the local Mennonite boys hunt and trap them, and they have educated them to a point that it's hard to get one to respond to a call.
What was the surface he stepped on to? I find my Crocs have very good traction although they don't have any ankle support (neither do tennis shoes).
All Crocs are not equal, the originals really are slick as ice on any hard wet surface. In response they now make some models with harder sole inserts.
First pair of Crocs I had was the wide-toed diabetic model, dang they were comfortable.
Since then Crocs have been my usual footwear. One year my name among my students was The Most Interesting Man in the World, "I don't always wear shoes, but when I do, I wear Crocs"
Last fall I even hiked ten miles in Crocs, over steep and rocky Hill Country trails, carrying two gallons of water in a backpack. Crocs are also my usual cycling shoe, and my daily wear at work.
Here I was just last week, reveling in the coolness of my Crocs
Downside of Crocs is they wear rapidly. In particular, once the outside of the sole at the heel wears down a little they can work havoc on you knees, ankles and feet.
...and mesquite thorns come right through the soles.
Indeed, my own Crocs-in-the-woods-on-purpose phase lasted about a day, tho if its what I got on (as it often is) when the woods arrives, there I go, they are like the anti snake boot, the very other end of the spectrum.
I wore Birks for years but I never really got to where I could climb stairs without stepping out of them. My toes don't clinch right. I've never had that problem with Crocs.