The movie version of The Road by Cormac McCarthy is going to be coming out soon. He’s the guy who wrote No Country for Old Men and All the Pretty Horses. The Road is about a father-son duo walking to the coast in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where the remaining humans have resorted to roving in packs in the hope of killing and eating each other. Naturally I’ve been thinking about what kind of footwear would be good when this version of the near future comes through, and I can’t think of anything better than these ugly-ass UK Gear PT-03 Desert Shoes the Gear Junkie found. The shoes are made for weather up to 122F with a heat-resistant outsole (great for wading through the two inches of ash that will cover the landscape) and sand-proof uppers. I think UK Gear is a spinoff of the wildly successful American company L.A. Gear, but I’m not 100% on that one. The UK Gear PT-03 Desert Trainers cost about $130.

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