Zero Days. Barbara Egbert

had to wade through waist-deep snow in the North Cascades. And all this in his namesake pair of Chaco sandals.

      Chacoman had a trail name without even realizing it at first. Another hiker named Kat recognized the tracks left in the trail by the distinctive tread of his Chaco Z1 sandals. After seeing the tracks for a while, she declared, to the disbelief of her hiking partners, that someone was hiking in Chacos. From then on, they referred to the unknown hiker ahead of them as Chacoman. Later, they caught up with him at Pioneer Mail in southern California, where Kat immediately looked down at his feet and declared, “Look, it’s Chacoman.”