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Your shoes are gonna get wet. It happens eventually, through sweat, puddles, rain down your leg, mist on your boots in the morning. How do you fix this?
Accept that they'll get wet, and choose ones that dry really quick. Gore-tex boots, on top of not breathing well, costing loads and weighing a tonne, literally will never dry until you get them in front of a radiator for several hours. So, fuck them for everything but sub zero and snow. Go light, go fast, get boots or shoes that dry quickly.
If you want your feet to be dry, you have the following options that are far superior to boots:
>i) Goretex socks.
Rockys or ex police issue. These are lined with merino and breathe mildly well, again they take a long time to dry because muh gortex, but still good for short hikes and sweaty feet
>ii) Breadbags!
The connoisseur's choice. These'll keep your feet bone dry as long as you don't sweat, and if you do, swap for dry socks at a rest stop and continue to enjoy. Plus, these make the perfect camp shoe: dry your feet and change your socks, put on some breadbags, then slip your feet back into your wet boots to dry them out around camp while staying toasty. Downside? If you sweat a lot, these don't breathe.
>iii) Just go with it, brah
Get it over with, wet feet = freedom. The first splash will be cold but you'll be skipping through those streams after that.You'll be surprised how quickly wet cold feet soon become damp mild feet which soon become warm dry feet, all for much less weight on foot and in backpack. Get merino socks and quickdry boots and you've unlocked inner peace of quickdry nirvana
>iiii) I'm going in dry
Coat your feet in climber's balm or a wax. Can't waterproof the boot? Can't do the sock or breadbag? Desperate to stay bone dry? Cut straight to the feet. This method will keep its footses dryses bagginses, you might as well go barefoot if wet merino didn't give you great insulation too as it quickly dries.
4 reasons why goretex = gaytex.
