<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Okay, now having big feet is useful. Yes, I have big feet, and I can recommend a hiking shoe: New Balance 900 series. The 907 was just discontinued, and the 908 will be in the stores soon, probably January. I wear a size 14 EEEE, and did not notice any swelling on 900 miles of trail. Good luck. If you decide on the NB 900 shoes, buy several pair. This is the second time I've wanted to buy them and been caught between the end of the production cycle and startup of the new version.<div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Jim Keener ( J J )</div><div><a href="http://oldmanwalking.net">http://oldmanwalking.net</a></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 11, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Allan Fein wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 8pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif" size="2">I recently read a post where someone said that they started their trip in shoe size 10 and by the end of their thru-hike were in size TWELVE and a HALF. (Just do the math on my delema)</font></div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif" size="2"></font> </div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif" size="2">Buying footware in my current shoe size of 14 is difficult enough, so the prospect of swelling feet and having to buy even larger sized shoes is dreary. I have never been on a distance backpack so I have no baseline to gage if my feet will swell or not.</font></div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif" size="2"></font> </div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif" size="2">I've backpacked in the southern CA deserts for the last 15 years (4 nights max) and have also been on many week long backpack trips (longest trip 100 miles) and have never experienced swelling like I'm now hearing about.</font></div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif" size="2"></font> </div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif" size="2">QUESTION:</font></div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="3"><font face="courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif" size="2">Does anyone out there have BIG (Rubeus Hagrid) size feet that can recommend a brand or style of hiking shoes / boots.</font></font></div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="2"></font> </div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="2">Thanks in advance</font></div><div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Courier" size="2">Al</font></div></div><br><hr size="1">Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! 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