I had a woman show up here wearing flip flops in March. She was here to get free trees and shrubs.I've rappelled in them, I've hiked in them, I walk the open desert in them, I've walked Kilauea Iki in them. Very few places I won't wear a good pair of sandals. They need a good sole though to keep the cholla spines out of your feet.
I had to give her a bandaid to put on her bleeding foot before she left.