Posted by: NitroSteel
Need help with shoes/ thoughts on shoes - 05/17/09 08:40 PM
I've been alloted $100 from the boss (wife) and was looking on Sierra Trading post for boots on sale with good ratings overall.
I've narrowed it down to 2 different ones, that are both very highly rated and wondered what ya'll thought of them. I'll be doing 55 miles on the AT first week of June, so I need to get these ordered ASAP.
The two are "Vasque Zephyr Tech" and "La Sportiva Thunder". The Thunder's are Gore-Tex which would be a plus, however my feet always seem to get wet with Gore-Tex anyways... On the other hand I like the lacing (laceless) system on the Zephyr Tech boots. I basically always wear a size 10.5 medium width and it sounds like both of these boots fit true to size. I'm 4 hours from any decent outdoors store (REI), so I'm going to have to do mail order unless I pick them up on the way to the hike, which I think would be a huge mistake (no break-in period).
Both of these boots are 50% off, and are highly rated on all of the sites I checked.
Let me know what ya'll think. Thank you again for your help.
NitroSteel
I've narrowed it down to 2 different ones, that are both very highly rated and wondered what ya'll thought of them. I'll be doing 55 miles on the AT first week of June, so I need to get these ordered ASAP.
The two are "Vasque Zephyr Tech" and "La Sportiva Thunder". The Thunder's are Gore-Tex which would be a plus, however my feet always seem to get wet with Gore-Tex anyways... On the other hand I like the lacing (laceless) system on the Zephyr Tech boots. I basically always wear a size 10.5 medium width and it sounds like both of these boots fit true to size. I'm 4 hours from any decent outdoors store (REI), so I'm going to have to do mail order unless I pick them up on the way to the hike, which I think would be a huge mistake (no break-in period).
Both of these boots are 50% off, and are highly rated on all of the sites I checked.
Let me know what ya'll think. Thank you again for your help.
NitroSteel