reuben
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Post by reuben on May 18, 2016 6:07:26 GMT -8
If your wearing waterproof your feet can't breathe creating a gross smell foot mess. I'm not a big fan of goretex, but I have to wonder why foot odor is offensive while the odors from the rest our bodies after a few days of backpacking aren't offensive. One more smell won't make much difference.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2016 7:06:29 GMT -8
I like Gortex. I find Gortex does a great job with keeping my feet dry.
In example, last summer my wife, a Gortex boot person, and I went on a 6 day 5 night backpacking trip along the coast of Washington State. At least 30 percent of the walking was through salt water. The outside of my boots and the bottoms of my pants, during the coast walk, were rarely dry. Gortex helped keep our feet dry and comfortable.
My experience with Gortex has been positive.
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almostthere
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Post by almostthere on May 18, 2016 7:53:28 GMT -8
Mine has been horribly negative...
Sometimes that foot smell is a problem with fungus. Fungus can lead to losing toenails and horrible blisters in places that don't even see any friction -- I get them between the toes, along the bottoms and sides of the feet, and I start soaking them in apple cider vinegar - no more blistering, no more yellow nails, no more layers of skin sluffing off constantly....
Just say no to trench foot and insidious foot fungus.... Ridding my life of Goretex shoes has been the other piece of the bigger puzzle. No more feet swimming around in wet socks for days. My shoes don't take three days to dry out. (And that's here, in the dry California central valley summer. Those Goretex shoes that soaked my feet in their own sweat took three days, in the full sun, to dry out inside.)
Dry is a relative thing. My feet get sweaty even when it's 20F during the day. I don't get to pretend Goretex works for me. It just doesn't. I'll never get rid of the fungus completely and it started when I was still trying to wear waterproof shoes... I sure wish I hadn't listened to sales people.
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Westy
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Post by Westy on May 18, 2016 10:27:05 GMT -8
My experience with Gortex has been positive. Mine has been horribly negative... Mine is mixed. Last year I converted to non-Gore-Tex hiking shoes for applications involving 100 miles plus of on-trail alpine travel. The lesson I learned was that no matter what footwear you have; you will have wet feet. Since the wet feet is fact, the question becomes which dries faster. The answer and conclusion non-Gore-Tex.
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Post by treebeard on May 26, 2016 16:33:48 GMT -8
I have Merrell Moab Ventilators, and they've held up well. I've hiked in old sneakers, though, as well, and done fine. I had boots a short while, when I first started hiking, and I never came home without holes in my heels. Never again.
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Post by treebeard on May 26, 2016 16:35:09 GMT -8
Gotta agree with the wet feet inevitability. No shoe will ever be waterproof enough to prevent sweat.
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texasbb
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Post by texasbb on May 26, 2016 17:54:51 GMT -8
Everybody's feet are different. I'm one of the lucky ones whose feet don't sweat much, so I get along with Gortex pretty well. I don't like it for its waterproofness--that's more often a pain than a benefit--but it keeps all the fine sand and grit from coming through the shoe fabric. Combined with scree gaiters, my Goretex shoes/boots look like new on the inside even after multiple years of hard use. Fewer blisters, too. Socks, shoes, and feet last longer.
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