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What backpacking/hiking boots do you use? 31-May-2010 At 2:48:17 PM cruze

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Sounds like a got off easy then! I know the sections you mean. The boggy area on the way to Campamenton Dickson had a few logs here and there which were pretty squishy underneath and booby trapped. Falling off there would have been fairly terminal... Above Campamento Los Perros through the tree roots could be avoided to some extent with a bit of balcning on the roots. Round the front side I wasn't entirely convinced that the streams we were walking along were tracks until we met a party coming the other way every now and then.

I take your point about water though. You can resist it for a while, but it will find you... And once it does find you it can take ages for full leather boots to dry out. Then again I tend to find that my Scarpas don't retain too much water with repeated application of snoseal using a hair drier. I mean you can be applying snoseal for hours...