[pct-l] shoe sizing, cont.....

[Yoshihiro Murakami]

Dear Ned

This may be the same discussion carried out in Feb. 17.
I also have no experience of feet enlargement. At first, I thought
this phenomena can be observed among only PCT thru-hikers, but I think
there is a latent variable.---shoes vs boots.

Many people who asserts the feet enlargement wears shoes, but I and
Ned wear boots, and report no enlargement. ( I am  60 years old, so
very old guy ). My Japanese friend who hiked from Tuolumne to Yosemite
reported feet enlargement and blisters and he wore shoes.  I wore
heavy duty boots last summer, and I hiked thru JMT with no trouble.

This summer,  I have selected ASOLO Expert GV GTX Mountaineering Boots
and heavy duty pack( Mountain Hardwear Solitude, with heavy camera
http://psycho01.edu.u-toyama.ac.jp/SolitudeNow.jpg ), because I must
guide my wife from Tuolumne to VVR, and I must carry 14 days foods.
(28-30 Kg : ca 60 pound )

Thanks for your information about MTR, but the bucket problem still
remains for foreigner, so I will skip MTR, I will hike from VVR to
Whitney Portal ( or Lone Pine ) with 14 days foods.

The packing was completed. I am ready to fly to USA. When you
completed the DVD, please teach me.





2010/7/27  <ned at mountaineducation.org>:
> Just to chime in on the other side of the commentary,
>
> On our recent video journey along the crest, we took full leather boots made by the Limmer family (they've been making hiking boots for generations). The three of us all have different size and shaped feet and we fit just a single size up from our foot measurements and tracings (which they required for their fitting standards).
>
> Despite carrying 80-pound packs full of camera gear and 12 day's of food (we crawled along at about 4 to 8 miles per day filming everything we could think of that hikers would need to see or know about), we never got blisters or any other foot problems, even after minimal to non-existent break-in, over the course of the two-month trip. We were in snow most of the time except the last week from Bishop Pass to the John Muir Trail Ranch and Florence Lake when we did some heavy downhill pounding down those awful granite steps that are so common on switchbacks!
>
> Great ankle support, never got our feet wet (unless intentionally walking through creeks), loved the "swing weight," and with gaitors nothing got into them to cause any other problems. On the crusty snow of early morning climbs, these boots kept us alive because we could easily kick in steps with our hard edges and our ankles would not roll and precipitate a fall.
>
> Don't rule these "old guys" out. They performed flawlessly for us and they will continue to do so for years to come (on the same pair!).
>
>
>
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Backpacking for 30 years in Japan
2009 JMT, the first America.
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