“So, he’s a lizard, but he breaks whole cities? And he lives in the water? Why doesn’t he like the cities? What’s he called again? Oh, right, Godzilla. He’s just a really big lizard? Is he nice?”
Now, I don’t advise trying to explain that Godzilla is an avatar of the hubris of human progress and the fear of a vengeful natural world to a five-year-old. We didn’t get far there. But the whole conversation was a reminder that the concept of Godzilla is probably better explored through its intended medium — film — than as a loose overview supplementary to bedtime stories.
I was reminded of this, weirdly, in testing the Hoka Kaha 3 Low GTX. Well, maybe not so weirdly. This is a big stomping shoe, and in the “Eucalyptus/Birch” colorway my testing pair came in, imagining you are Godzilla wrecking your way through a major metropolitan area isn’t too difficult. This hiking monster has a dual-density EVA midsole that’s made of 30% sugarcane, a one-piece nubuck leather upper lined with Gore-Tex InvisibleFit and capped in the toe and heel with durable plastic, and a truly claw-like Vibram MegaGrip outsole with traction lugs.
It weighs 17.1 oz for a US M9 and has an 8 mm heel-to-toe drop somewhere in that mountain of EVA. So I guess we should figure out whether this thing is as good at wrecking ascents as it is at imaginary skyscrapers.
