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That's interesting. Thank you. Perhaps I am in a small minority here but as a vegetarian I wouldn't be able to follow your advice to wear leather - which is a pity. However, if I keep up my present training walk regime, the skin on my own feet may well have turned to leather itself; in which...
OK that sounds like good advice. The information I was given is that the waterproofness of any boot will deteriorate over time; it's just a matter of whether relatively new boots will last for 5 weeks, which in turn is a function of the weather and ground surfaces encountered as well as, in my...
Thank you everyone for your information and advice. I am particularly paranoid about getting wet feet as a while ago, wearing cheap boots on a training walk, my feet got wet and not being able to change into dry socks etc I had to continue walking for another 3 hours. As a result, the skin...
Hello everyone,
here is my first forum post. I intend to walk my first Camino Frances in January 2018. I bought a pair of North Face hiking shoes/boots which are said to be waterproof. When I told the assistant about the nature of the walk - 4 to 5 weeks, over variable terrain, in winter, his...
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