Check into the Asics Gel-Trabuco series. I have been wearing these for both backcountry trails in Colorado, running on pavement, the gym, and on local smooth gravel trails. They are lightweight, flexible, with a grippy sole, and breathe well. They are unlikely to hold up for extended backpacking, though. But for general hiking and trail running, they excel. Be aware that you are going to see the soles wear sooner than some of the hikers on the list you gave. Trade-offs. I have Goretex hikers as well and I can tell you that they definitely are hotter and your feet will sweat in them. I have them in cold and warm weather models. They are good in cooler mountain environments and where you might hike in spongy, moist lowlands, and keep your feet from getting soaked from morning dews. Again, trade-offs.
Asics Trabuco (non max!) is stable and similar to your Kayano's. I personally like Nike Zegama 2's as well they are very comfortable and very stable. In trails shoes you are just looking for stable shoes, pronation correction doesn't really exist there.
Only really bad shoe I ever had was the Trabuco Max 3, very high stack + very soft. For that same reason you might want to stay away from the Mafate 5
Option 3: trail running shoes 😁
You’ll need something to give you “stability” and dont be always putting “weight” on your knees when you come down from hills.
I did it with some Scarpa, Salomon (worst shoes for me) and I’m planning to do it with ASICS Trabuco.
Mafate speed 4 is actually 7mm in runrepeat test. I have a pair, and they don't feel as other 4mm drop shoes I use.
OP, you could try Asics trabucos. They are 8mm, go for 12th versión, 13th upper is trash
Asics trabucos work for me in highly technical terrain. Enough cushion but still quite stiff, not very high and wide fit. Trabuco 13s upper is not good, it breaks really easy, I'm in my second pair and I won't get more than 400km from any of them (second one is a replacement sent by Asics). 11 and 12 work better for this kind of skyrunning. I was getting around 700/800km put of them.
Asics trabucos are wide and roomy.
The speedgoats 2E are actually very narrow and low volume. Even the mafate speed 4 in normal width are roomier.
I tried topo MTN racer 3. They are wide in the forefoot, but narrow in the arch/midfoot. Can't wear them
Agility peak 5 is also wide and high volume.
Have a look at Asics line up. Trabuco and trabuco max. They are plenty wide.
I tried speedgoats 2E, they are not any wide. Mafate 4s are actually wider, but still not enough for me if I'm going long.
The ones that fit me well. I really enjoyed the old NB hierro V5 and V6, then they made them narrower and not using them anymore.
Asics shoes fit me really well, used lots of pairs of trabuco and some Fuji lite for speedwork and short racing.
Deciding between mount to coast T1 and Sportiva prodigio pro for this year's long objetive in high mountain technical terrain, 10 hours or so. If anyone has both, will appreciate an insight.
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