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I walked basically my entire second Camino this year in my Keen Whispers when my Salomon boots didn't work out too well for me. Wore them with socks. Got pretty lucky with the weather, but I even walked over a snowy peak at Cruz de Ferro in them. Luckily the trail was clear - dirty socks but...
Thought I'd throw it out there that right now Costco (at least in the Lower Mainland in BC, Canada) has Merino Wool t-shirts at the moment for a very reasonable price, although I can't remember exactly how much. $15-20? Compared to, say, the $50 ones at MEC, it's a steal. Picked up a few (they...
I love the Lush shampoo bars! I use them for shampoo (at home, too!), shower soap, and laundry soap. You only need a bit to get a lot of lather. Some of the bars have a lot of "gunk" in them, like little flowers or seaweed... for the Camino I prefer to take the "less frills" bars. Try "NEW!"...
Hi again Diego!
Also starting to gear up for my Camino. Picked up two pairs of boots at a Canadian outdoors store yesterday to try out, and they're quite similar to the ones you recently posted links to:
http://www.mec.ca/AST/ShopMEC/Footwear/ ... womens.jsp...
As far as high tech stink goes, one shirt I had on my camino was wonderful... It was advertised as having anti-stink properties and it was right. It's from lululemon athletica, which is a Canadian brand hut i believe is now all over North America at least. Their stuff is quite expensive but you...
has anybody an idea of the best way to train to avoid tendonitis in the shins? when i did my first camino in april 2011, i suffered extremely bad tendonitis from the end of my very first week straight through to santiago. i'm hoping i can chalk it up to bad training so that i can avoid it on my...
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