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david fowler 2

09/08/08 23:57

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would anybody recommend hi tec boots for walking 10-15 miles a day

10/08/08 00:14

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They are ok! They do the job, but do not expect more than a year or so at most from these such cheaper market end outdoors boots though, when put to more constant useage.

I've no real complaints about any of my pairs of their fine boots though, for sure.

You do get much what you pay for in outdoors boots I tend to find. Ten to fifteen miles a day is very conservative walking really, and should not tax these boots too much at all, if you look after both them and your feet too with due care beforehand.

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david fowler 2

10/08/08 00:16

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thanks

17/08/08 12:54

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I've just completed the Coast to Coast for the 41st time. It was the wettest crossing I've ever led and the bogs in places were horrendous. I wore almost new eVent-lined Hi-Tec Supalites which kept my feet bone dry except for one day between Rosthwaite and Lining Crag when water washed over the top of my boots.

It's the second pair of Supalites that I've owned and in my opinion they are much better than the much more expensive Meindl Maine.

17/08/08 20:21

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They do the job, but do not expect more than a year or so at most from these such cheaper market end outdoors boots though

I only get a year out of the more traditional makes - Meindl, Saloman, Asolo for example. And Hi-Tec aren't 'cheap-end' any more than others.

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Paddy Dillon

17/08/08 21:59

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Hugh - I'm surprised I didn't see you up on Nine Standards Rigg - given that the rest of the world, and his wife and dog, were all up there walking the Coast to Coast. I've never seen it so wet and boggy up there, and I was wearing the sort of shoes that let it all in.

18/08/08 06:57

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Paddy:

You would only have seen my head poking out of the bog on Friday 8th August!

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Paddy Dillon

18/08/08 07:42

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Hugh - My head would have been poking out of the bog on Monday 4th August, but there were so many other heads poking out of the bog that I used them as stepping stones!

It was a brilliant day for views and a pity about conditions underfoot, because you had to spend more time looking at the bog beneath your feet than the distant prospects.

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