Parley x adidas Terrex Free Hiker XPL 'Savanna'
Colorway: Savanna/Savanna/Core Black · Style code: GZ3374 · Release date: April 20, 2022 · Price: $253 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Parley x adidas Terrex Two 'Solar Gold' (FW7141) · Parley x adidas Terrex Free Hiker 'Black' (GX0061) · Parley x adidas Terrex Free Hiker 'Aluminium Sesame' (GX0063) · Parley x adidas Terrex Free Hiker 'Dash Grey' (EG5397) · Parley x adidas Terrex DLX Boat 'Legend Earth' (DB1162)
Parley for the Oceans intercepts plastic waste on shorelines and coastal areas and turns it into yarn, and adidas has been building shoes from that fibre since the middle of the last decade. The Terrex line took it up for hiking, where the requirement is harder to meet: an upper that has to survive abrasion and stay waterproof cannot simply be swapped for recycled material and left at that.
The Free Hiker XPL is where adidas pushed the idea furthest. Its textile upper is more than half Parley fibre and other recycled content, laminated with a Gore-Tex membrane built without added PFCs, a change the outdoor industry had been slow to make. Boost sits underneath, which is still unusual for a hiking silhouette.
The design took an ISPO award in 2022 on the strength of that combination rather than on its looks. This savanna brown version came in April of that year at $220, priced against ordinary technical hiking boots rather than as a statement object.