Hiking shoes..

[Wasatch Rebel]

I've had these Salomon hiking shoes for the past couple of years, but last week when I went fishing near Salmon, Idaho I noticed something about them that is really troubling. That is, they are excellent on dry rocks, but when I tried to step on wet rocks, they were slicker than slick. I'm planning a Kings Peak hike in August and I'm worried because of the number and frequency of rain storms up there, that I'll be caught on the rocks with these shoes that are great for most of the hike, but then once the rocks are wet, I'll be in trouble. I don't want to have to purchase new hiking shoes right now, but would like to be safer. Do they make some kind of spray that might help with that? Or if you have any other suggestions, I'd like them. Weird. I keep typing in the body of text box and after a few words, my cursor ends up in the title box...if you have any ideas on why that's happening, let me know as well.

[Bootboy]

The wet rocks in question were probably in the creek right? If the rocks have latent slime on them and you step on the with wet shoes, or rocks already in the water, they will be slick. That is not the case on kings peak. You should be fine.

[Wasatch Rebel]

The wet rocks in question were probably in the creek right? If the rocks have latent slime on them and you step on the with wet shoes, or rocks already in the water, they will be slick. That is not the case on kings peak. You should be fine.

They were not actually in the creek, but on the shore just outside the water--they did get creek water splashed on them.

[middlefork]

It has been my experience that river rock tends to be more polished than some other types may be. And wet rock in any form is more slippery than dry. Sticky rubber may help to some extent but if there is something like liechen on the rock and it gets wet it will be every bit as slick as you experienced on the river rock. Take it easy and maybe use a walking stick.