Off road Crocs, they double as my camp shoes to air my feet at the end of the day.
Weigh nowt too.
C.
Weigh nowt too.
C.
I keep my boots on. Many rivers in NZ are actually the route in to wherever you are going, so you can be crossing the river every ten minutes. This is also the reason many people wear shorts or shorts and polypropylene long johns all year. My boots are the all rubber Skellerup Hiker worn with good thick wool socks. You used to be able to get a similar all rubber walking boot called the Viking or similar in the UK.
Thing is though, most of the time it's not really 'rivers' that folks need to cross, but burns and becks, and tbh there are sometimes so many that taking your boots off and getting them back on again a dozen times in an hour is a right royal pain in the situpon.
cheers,
M
Aye Toddy I'm only talking about taking yer boots off if it's likely to come over the top (and I wear high leg Meindl boots a lot.) If I'm just having a dicht across a wee burn I'll leave them on. Just don't see the point in getting wet boots if you don't have too. Especially as now most boots have a waterproof membrane it takes blinking ages to dry them.
True, true. I still wear old fashioned ones that do dry with the heat of movement, and I forget about all the breathable linings, etc.,
I do find that a lot of the time that with a wee quick loup, and then a sort of skiddle through the shallow bits, is quite possible in gaiters to keep the boots dry though.
M
True, true. I still wear old fashioned ones that do dry with the heat of movement, and I forget about all the breathable linings, etc.,
I do find that a lot of the time that with a wee quick loup, and then a sort of skiddle through the shallow bits, is quite possible in gaiters to keep the boots dry though.
M
I have worked three weeks straight, sodden wet, not a dry stitch to put on, in the early spring in the Lake district. We fieldwalked every day, and it poured incessantly. We crossed so many burns we lost count, the fields were flooded, the roads were sodden, and there was no way to get things dry. We just put waterproofs on top and kept walking. (we stayed in a converted medieval barn with one tiny wee coal fire, and the lum needed swept )
None of us got trench foot, athletes foot, or blisters, come to that.......
.....Plain leather boots dry out with the heat of movement far more effectively than stuffing them with papers and leaving them for a fortnight somewhere dry and cool. Just nourish the leather when you get a chance and they're fine.
Tbh, I think a lot of kit is severely fashionised and over engineered these days; to the extent that it's not really reliably up to the job.
Mary