Originally Posted By Trailrunner
Originally Posted By TomD
in fast running rivers where you might be at least knee deep and can't see anything at all, one mistep and you can easily go over.


So true.

I have a video, shot last March, of a friend crossing Sespe Creek. She was in up to mid-calf and the water appeared to be benign.......until she stepped into an unseen hole and found herself up to her chest!!!!!!


Another resounding vote on the traction issue. I don't go barefoot or stocking feet for that reason usually.

My usual strategy is to go on through, then maybe dry my socks off by wringing them out. Typically I am wearing just a polypro liner sock, or a poly liner with a wool sock. if I wring out the wool sock effectively I tend to not have too much water after.

Oftentimes if I am just wearing a liner sock and trailrunners I don't wring them out. I just keep going. This is the primary attraction of a trailrunner to me. Wearing boots I'll usually wring out.

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