>>2186581If you are European, also give Lundhag Park/Forest a look. It's like an LL Bean boot, where the bottom is rubber. That part can be resoled. Also a very good option.
Wouldn't get in states as resoling would be difficult in finding a replacement and cobbler to stitch it for a good value.
I think Lundhags recently switched to using polyurethane as it was lighter and more flexible than rubber. If I recall, the Parks (shorter height) weighed about the same as my M77s.
>>2186595Yeah, he is a good guy. The way you do your outsole is wearing a sock you are willing to dispose and wrapping duct tape around it in a very particular way to make a cast of your foot shape that you then trim down, mail him to make you a boot.
There are about a dozen people that make a similar design. Must have been a hippy convention in the 70s. Can't remember any at the top of my head. I think there was a Catskill Moccasin or another NY mountain, but they ran a lot more expensive.
>>2186751Redback Everest only uses a thin layer of chambrelle that is supposed to wick sweat. It isn't your usual foam+liner package you'd expect from like Danners. Most of Redback doesn't use liners.
Most the African boots are unlined. Jim Green (awesome value), Kommando store gets imports of Rhodesian boots but the leather is kind of thin, and there Courteney boots also unlined. Don't think the latter two would deal well with water as one is thin and the other I tried in pacific northwest. Think the african game leather is either vegetable tanned and not chrome simply isn't a water resistant leather. Don't think this is case with jim green as it is your typical chrome tanned cow.
