Showing posts with label Mammut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mammut. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 July 2018

Coast to Coasting #2: Gear failure - Boots (Again)

On top of Raven Crag - but watch those boots.
I have bad boot karma, no doubt about it.
My Zamberlans peeled their soles on the last day of the Northern Tongariro Circuit so I ditched them. My Scarpas peeled their soles on the last day of the Rakiura Track last year but I persisted, had them reglued (at great expense) in Brisbane, restitched (at very little expense) in Ladakh, and gave them away in Dharamsala because I just couldn’t trust them to last.
I bought a new pair of Mammut boots in January for this hike. Carefully broke them in till they were wonderfully comfortable. But then…