How do you adjust chacos

Open the buckle and loosen the strap all the way. Loosen the uppermost strap by pulling it from the outside of your foot towards the inside. Loosen the middle strap leading from your pinky toes by pulling it down and towards the inside of your foot.

Step into your loosened Chacos and make the final adjustment, securing the fit with the buckle. Adjusting Chacos With a Toe Loop. Starting from the point nearest the ball of your foot, pull the strap that runs around your big toe down towards the outside of your foot. This will tighten the cross strap running from your big toe down below your pinky toe.

Pull the cross strap downward towards the outside of your foot, starting from the point nearest your big toe. This will tighten the strap that wraps around your big toe. Pull the strap that feeds into the buckle starting from the inside of your foot pulling towards the buckle. This will tighten the strap that runs diagonally across the base of your toes and top of foot. Loosen the top strap that runs across the top of your foot towards your big toe by pulling from the outside of the foot up towards your toe.

Step 3 Now pull the front outside strap up until there is enough room for your foot to easily fit in the straps labeled 3 in the diagram. Go ahead and put your foot through the straps. It should be very loose on your foot. If not pull on the tight strap to loosen it. Working from the inside, pull the front strap up until the strap that crosses the top of your foot, from instep to just behind your toes, until it is snug labeled 1 in the diagram. You should be able to get a finger under the strap across your foot.

Step 2 Move back to the middle inside strap labeled 2 in the diagram. Gently pull it up until the whole front of the sandal is snug. Again you should be able to get a finger under both front straps, but they should not be loose. Luckily for you, there is an easy fix to loosen them right up. How to Un-stick Your Chaco Straps For the sake of this demonstration, I took my Chaco Z2 sandals and flattened the toe loop, conveniently turning them into a makeshift pair of Chaco Z1s because the main difference between the two is the toe loop.

How do I bring my toe loop back to its proper form? About the Author: Alex Gulsby. Alex is a contributing author and gear tester for 99Boulders and has been pushing the limits of what gear can do for the past six years. You could probably convince her to hike up pretty much anything for a good summit beer. You can read more of her writing on her blog, Wander Writings.