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Those moc toes tend to be worthless with water.
If you want a polyurethane boot just buy a European made boot. Theres a million.
Australia also has Mongrel Boots and Redback. Prefer former.
For European I use finnish sievi. Lowa consistently gets the highest recommendations though.
Theres also meindl, la sportiva, salomaon, hanwag, altberg, garmont, aku, alfa, lundhags, prabos and a zillion more. Most are Germanic including Austrian, Northern Italy.
Lowa does a good job with goretex so id look there for zephyr, renegade or tibet.
Please stop making a new bread for your gearfaggot blog posts. This is the best advice you will get unless you want gay minimalist shoes. US bootmakers are living in the 20th century like they did with revolvers and making welted clunkers if it isnt made in Chinka. Only US makers that use polyurethane are thorogood and belleville. Former can be hit and miss with polyurethane and does better welted work boots and latter is good but their lacing tends to require an insole or high volume foot.
