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What backpacking/hiking boots do you use? 30-May-2010 At 8:58:44 PM cruze

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Call me old fashioned but I use Scarpa treks almost dripping with snoseal. With a decent pair of gaiters and a good pair of socks you will never have wet feet. I must also be a complete gumby because every time I whack my shoes on a rock or root with a decent pack on my pack I thank the heavens that I am not wearing sneakers.

Rogaining I wear sneakers all the time. That is typically mostly off track in some pretty nasty terrain, but it's only for 24 hours so I can deal with the consequences. I use the cheapest pair of Asics I can because sneakers get trashed. I still do my best to keep my shoes and socks dry though.

For me, anyway, walking with wet skin = very bad.

That said, my next pair of walking shoes probably wont be full leather, I think the non-full leather materials they use now are spiffing.