Approach Shoes

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The TX2s are super light, great for fast approaches, and climb phenomenally well.

The steeziest approach shoe around!

The performance and price point puts the Icarus right in the mix with other top approach shoes.

If you’re in the market for an approach/hiking shoe, the Sticky Cloud should be on your radar.

A lightweight approach shoe for moving fast in the hills.

Boreal markets the Bamba as a “street shoe” that also performs off road. That’s exactly right. But they might have undersold it.

The Cruzer is either suffering from an identity crisis or is the perfect combo of hike-ability, climbing and class—maybe a bit of both.

A tough, no-fuss approach shoe that not only works on the rock, but also holds enough aesthetic flair to wear from crag to coffeehouse.

Imagine a high-performing alpine boot cut off above the ankle, as if by guillotine. Viola, you now have a shoe, not a boot.