Seen any shoe trees?

“I was reading a super article in Outside mag about a guy who made a 3500 mile journy across the west looking for shoe trees. Anyone seen such a thing?”

“My four-year-old threw his shoes in a tree once.”

“You only see them among the well-heeled.”

“Allen Edmunds and Florsheims(sp) has a nice selection. And if you sweet talk them you may get a free pair.”

“Cedar are the best. LOL

No, never heard of a shoe tree except for the kind used to store shoes.”

“One, Shoe, Tree, Four, Five”

“In Philly, kids toss their old sneakers (tied together) over the utility lines. I don't know if this is to mark their turf or just what the motivation is. Laces on sneakers can last a suprisingly long time! Is this a common practice in your neck of the woods? I literally caught a boot while fishing at a remote lake which was created by the WPA. I know its an old "joke" that boots are snagged by anglers, but I'm wondering if the two disposals of old footware are somehow related? Sounds like the makings of a doctoral dissertation on "cultural disparities in footware disposal."
Maybe suburban kids toss their shoes into trees???”

“I've got a few pairs of Johnson and Murphy's with shoe trees, as wel as a pair of Bass penny loafers that I have trees in. Does that help?”

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In New Jersey too. In every city there are old sneakers over the utility lines. Never saw them in trees, guess that's why you'd have to travel 3,500 miles.
Catching a shoe is a good one. Believe it or not, I caught a fishing rod once in the middle of Sandy Hook Bay. I caught it through one of the guides so it came up level. It felt weird and when I glimpsed this long red thing about 10 feet down I nearly let it go. Didn't want to bring a strange, eight foot long, skinny creature aboard. I guess it hadn't been there long as I cleaned it up and use it still.”

“Utahiker,
Here's one my Grandson and I found last year on the way home from Mel's Yosemite Hike

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=146742&a=7098978&p=24061364&f=0”

“yep,
That's the one by Mel's house. I see it when going to flyfish Hot Creek. I believe it was started as a way to mark the turnoff.”

“Here's that tree

Boy it sure would be nice if the software for this site automatically recognized links and posted them as such (hint, hint, Matt). Course I would hate to lose the ability to use HTML if that were the trade-off.”

“There is a bra tree at the Mt. Snow ski area in Southern Vermont. It is about 1/3 of the way up the lift on the Northface side of the moutain. Camo, tie-dye, black lace etc etc.”

“Yes. Used to be two on Highway 395 north of Reno, NV on the California side of the state line. The first was cleaned up by the highway department for legal liability reasons
and the other, north of Susanville, was vandalized.

The first one was on the highway right-of-way, giving the road dept jurisdiction. A new one is being started in the same area away from the highway on private land -- this time a combination shoe-and-bra tree.”

“I don't have any pictures or anything but I swear this is true. We were camping with our kids and a neighbor's kid in Iowa when one of the kids came out of the bushes with a shoe in his hand. Well, the other kids followed him back into the bushes and they found ten complete pairs of shoes. They ranged from dressy casual to downright bizarre (black leather, platform soles with mother-of-pearl inlaid stars). We theorized that some guy got tired of his girlfriend's shoe obsession and decided to do away with them all in one fell swoop. Maybe this was a shoe tree that had lost all of its foliage?”

“I WANNA SEE A SHOE TREE!!

Oops! Guess I just gotta read my issue of Outside mag first. Already read the story on Conrad Anker and the one on "the Ranch" on Molokai. Good stuff.”

“There is big shoe tree on the West Bank of the U of M - Twin Cities Campus. It is a large Maple (I think) just along side of the Washington Ave Bridge. The bridge is a double decker bridge with the top level for peds. There are probably four or five dozen pairs of shoes in that tree.

I'm going to throw a pair of old shoes in the tree arfter my last final in May to mark my graduation.

BTW there is also a plastic duck tree too. It has about two dozen colored plastic ducks (about 4" long each) hanging in the tree.”

“I saw boot nailed high up on a tree on the Cape Alava Loop trail in WA. I've seen a buoy tree on the Olympic coast. It was really nice. It had all different shapes and colors of bouys.

This maybe a NY oddity, but years ago, people starting hanging signs in the windows of their cars saying "no stereos" for theives that were contemplating entering their cars. Car owners started buying pull out stereos due to the high percentage of breakins.”

“So, did you every see one shoe/boot/running shoe lying in the road? What's up with that?”

“On the logging road to Holberg, a small town on the north tip of Vancouver Island,B.C., there is an amazing 'shoe tree'. Literally hundreds of shoes and boots. It's so full, now, that they easily go forty feet up the tree.

A little further down is the 'bra tree' followed closely by the 'underwear tree'. It's really quite a sight in the middle of bloody nowhere!”