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- From: tucker@shiva.edsg.hac.com (George Tucker)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: gaiters for crossing streams
- Message-ID: <24818@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:15:55 GMT
- References: <PSHANNON.93Jan19081423@iapetus.cv.nrao.edu>
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- In article <PSHANNON.93Jan19081423@iapetus.cv.nrao.edu> pshannon@iapetus.cv.nrao.edu (Paul Shannon) writes:
- >One of my favorite walks takes me across a stream 5 times in
- >a couple of hours. Usually the water is no deeper than a foot,
- >and often I wish for an alternative to the lengthy process of
- >shedding boots and socks, wading across, drying feet and putting
- >socks and boots back on.
- >
- >Colin Fletcher, (Complete Walker III, page 69) mentions "the
- >knee-length Yeti gaiter by Berghaus ... (which has) a 1.5-inch-deep
- >rubber seal that grips the boot sole tightly enough to exclude all
- >moisture."
-
- Well, it might work for 1.5-inch deep streams, but the effort to put on
- and take off Yeti gaiters would make up for at least half your time
- saving, they cost a lot, and you will wear them out on the trail.
- Save them for winter snow climbs.
-
- For the same amount of weight, you could carry some old sneakers, put
- them on once, change back to boots a couple of hours later. Or you
- could just leave the boots on and have wet feet for awhile. If it's
- trail, you could just skip the boots and wear lightweight shoes that
- dry quickly. People who aren't coddled like us norteamericanos might
- just go barefoot all the way, but that is not the generally recommended
- way to cross streams.
-
- George Tucker tucker@shiva.hac.com
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