Review: adidas Free Hiker 2.0 Low Gore-Tex Shoe

I think these are for almost anyone who lives an active outdoor lifestyle. You can properly go from the crag to the high street in these and not feel out of place in either location.

When I first got into ‘the outdoors’ I very quickly started to adopt the uniform of the outdoor enthusiast. I remember buying my first hardshell – a Rab Latok Alpine – and promptly wearing it to the supermarket with my girlfriend on the food shop. Over the next few years various additional outdoor garments made their way into my everyday outfits. Sometimes this practice would work the other way: bouldering in summer on Dartmoor I would catch myself wearing flip flops, cotton t-shirts, and being way too casual for a day out in a National Park.

This is a long-winded way of saying that the adidas Free Hiker Low 2 GTX is the perfect shoe for an outdoor enthusiast who doesn’t want to change shoes after they’ve been bimbling around the woods or coast path, when they get back to their car and need to pick up some food, or grab a drink in a bar.

They’re functional enough to manage long walks or scrambling over boulders, as well as that technical dash through torrential rain between the car and Sainsbury’s. I actually love that these shoes can do it all (pretty much) and so they’re the first pair I reach for on the shoe-rack every morning.