Help is needed by the knowledgable OM'ers out there. My girlfriend has bought a pair of Scarpa Lady Delta boots. They fit great on the length (finger down the back and all that), but are causing her some real pain and frustration due to giving her some amazing blisters, even after a 5 mile walk on the flat(East Anglia-You find a hill!). She's using Superfeet custom moulded insoles and is wearing quality liner and outer socks, all to no avail. Would a thicker insole, under the Superfeet one stop the heel lift? Save The Heels (please)

Is it heel lift that's causing the problem?

If so try:

1. Lacing the boot specifically to stop lifting.

2. adding volume under the insole at the heel (newspaper is cheap!)

3. attaching specifically designed sticky pad s to the heel of the boot, you can find them in Boots the chemist designed for old ladies shoes...

Apart from that tape her heels with zinc oxide tape before you walk and make sure she doesn't have athletes foot as this softens the skin.

HTH

I live on a farm and a bit of sheep wool always seems to do the trick if stuffed between ure foot and the offending area of the shoe. However, finding sheep wool when its not shearing season may be an issue unless you fancy picking bits off barbed wire and thorn bushes...

Otherwise if the boot are leather (I'm no expert on which boot is which!) take them to one of those shoe reheeling places (timpsons etc) and they can soften the leather for you.

I had a similar problem with Scarpa SL's and eventually found out that Scarpa boots are totally the wrong shape for my foot

Sorry to sound negative, but it sounds to me as though the boots just don't fit. I had blisters with some ill-fitting boots when I did a long walk last summer: it was a nightmare, as I've not really had blisters when walking for about 15 years! Anyway, when I got back I bought 2 (different) new pairs of boots with Superfeet Custom insoles, and the insoles hold my feet in place. I've had no problem at all.

Something is definitely wrong in your g/friend's boots: assuming the Superfeets were properly fitted, I think it must be the boots. Did she buy them at the same time as the insoles? If not, that might be the problem. If she did, though, I'd be thinking of going back to the shop for a new pair of boots and/or insoles...

Agree with last two posters. Boots these days (with exception of winter stiffies) shouldn't need 'breaking in'.
They don't fit.

Yes indeed they might not fit.
But, has she tried them without the superfeet, because if her feet fitted the boots without them, the insoles will lift the heel up inside the boot changing the fit of the boot quite a lot, I wear superfeet in most boots but in my Raichles they change the fit to such an extent I can pull my heel up as the padding no longer lines up with my ankle shape.

My misses has 3 pair of Scarpas and finds that she can't use her superfeet in any of them, and has to lace the boots specificaly to stop heel lift.