Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:51 pm
1000Pks wrote:Be sure to have good gaitors, snow can get into your boot from over the boot top, and plastic or sno-seal, your feet will get wet. Being a bc powder hound I used the ankle high ones. Or pants that have a sealed cuff about the bottom, maybe secured with a cord running under the sole.
+ 1
Though, it would seem to be obvious
1000Pks wrote:Plastic boots, being rigid, are hamburger makers (for your heels and other spots) if you use them for plain walking. You should get them if you are going for ice climbing, anyway, but myself, frown on spending so much for something that you might do only once or twice. These are specialty items for the rich, and you have some of those in the local MLC SC. Idiots, sometimes.
I take mine out on dayhikes fairly frequently to keep my feet acquainted with them. In the high mountains, they're a must-have. So sometimes, space/weight considerations, you have to get down to one pair of boots lower down. So it has to be those because you'll have to have them higher up.