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breaker90
Nov 29, 2010, 11:55 AM
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Hey everyone!!!
I dont know why you guys like camping, but i love it because it gives you a sense of freedom...So I have a couple of questions for you guys and I wanted to know if someone could help me out :)
So My family an I are going hicking in April, and I need to get a pair of solid boots, do you think these are good one http://www.swisslink.com/products/footwear_handwear/used_u_s_tan_jungle_boot-6-1661/
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qwert
Nov 29, 2010, 12:47 PM
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breaker90 wrote: Hey everyone!!! I dont know why you guys like camping, but i love it because it gives you a sense of freedom...So I have a couple of questions for you guys and I wanted to know if someone could help me out :) So My family an I are going hicking in April, and I need to get a pair of solid boots, do you think these are good one http://www.swisslink.com/products/footwear_handwear/used_u_s_tan_jungle_boot-6-1661/
Wat?
qwert
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bill413
Nov 29, 2010, 2:12 PM
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Do they fit?
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Toast_in_the_Machine
Nov 29, 2010, 3:02 PM
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Unfortunately the boots turn your feet into canned meat.
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Kartessa
Nov 29, 2010, 3:39 PM
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Good luck with that.
They're great camping/hiking boots if you've been wearing them for the last 12 months day and night.
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chadnsc
Nov 29, 2010, 4:07 PM
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OP,
Go with a light hiking boot like something from Salomon or Keen.
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edge
Nov 29, 2010, 7:48 PM
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I haven't used high top hiking shoes of any type since 1985. Well, except for winter mountaineering and ice.
approachshoes4lyfe!!!!!111
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chadnsc
Nov 29, 2010, 7:54 PM
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Yeah approach shoes are nice but for backpacking I like mid height (mid ankle) lightweight shoes. I've never been able to find a trail runner or approach shoe that fits me well enough.
Then again I do around 1,000 miles of backpacking a year with an average of 20 miles a day.
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edge
Nov 29, 2010, 9:31 PM
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chadnsc wrote: Yeah approach shoes are nice but for backpacking I like mid height (mid ankle) lightweight shoes. I've never been able to find a trail runner or approach shoe that fits me well enough. Then again I do around 1,000 miles of backpacking a year with an average of 20 miles a day.
If you are hiking 1000 miles and are still in Minnesota, you're doing it wrong...
You should have reached at least Wyoming by now.
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chadnsc
Nov 29, 2010, 10:18 PM
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edge wrote: chadnsc wrote: Yeah approach shoes are nice but for backpacking I like mid height (mid ankle) lightweight shoes. I've never been able to find a trail runner or approach shoe that fits me well enough. Then again I do around 1,000 miles of backpacking a year with an average of 20 miles a day. If you are hiking 1000 miles and are still in Minnesota, you're doing it wrong... You should have reached at least Wyoming by now.
Or at least be farther away from RC.nob. 
Actually the SHT, NCT, IAT are within an hours drive of Duluth and each have several hundred miles of continuous trail. Then there is the good old road trip to the PCT and the AT.
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Toast_in_the_Machine
Nov 29, 2010, 10:44 PM
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edge wrote: chadnsc wrote: Yeah approach shoes are nice but for backpacking I like mid height (mid ankle) lightweight shoes. I've never been able to find a trail runner or approach shoe that fits me well enough. Then again I do around 1,000 miles of backpacking a year with an average of 20 miles a day. If you are hiking 1000 miles and are still in Minnesota, you're doing it wrong... You should have reached at least Wyoming by now.
Hiking through Nebraska? That is just plain wrong.
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