If you are like me, you’ll often want to be wearing a simple, light approach shoe for a lot of your hiking instead of always using a heavy boot. In that case you should take a serious look at the Hanwag Drifter, a lightweight cross between a boot and a shoe that seems really suited [...] Read more »
A few more Karrimor Boots Reviewed
If you’re regular readers of this blog you will know just how much I love my Karrimor KSB Boots. I’ve had two pairs over the past decade and they have done really well, taking me up to almost 6000m in Nepal as well as half-way around the world. These are one of the company’s lightest [...] Read more »
Mountaineering Boots: A beginners guide to choosing your first mountaineering or hiking boots
Mountaineering Boots: is the first of a series of beginners guides covering the basic gear you need if you starting to discover the outdoors for the first time. Other guides will include choosing hiking boots, buying a first stove, sleeping bag and tent. Buying your first pair of mountaineering boots (or, for that matter, hiking [...] Read more »
La Sportiva Makalu Reviewed – One of the Top Winter Mountaineering Boots
There’s a particular feeling you get when you cinch yourself into a pair of four-season winter boots. It’s an electric mix of invincibility and discomfort as you adjust your gait to a ramrod sole that’s meant for kicking snow steps and front pointing all day. Serious boots were built for one thing, and that’s not [...] Read more »
Scarpa Manta Comes Top In Trail Magazine Review
Scarpa has just cleaned up the British Trail Magazine’s awards, winning best 4-season winter boot with the Scarpa Manta and best 3-4 season boot with the Scarpa SL. The review, which calls itself “Britain’s toughest test”, is bound to increase the popularity of the already iconic Manta boot. Update 2010: Most of this was written [...] Read more »
Scarpa Omega A New Generation of Ice Climbing Boot
Scarpa Omega – A New Generation of Ice-Climbing Boot Scarpa, well known for their double plastic Vega boots (Inferno in the U.S.), have released a new ice climbing boot that claims to be lighter and warmer than its competitors in the field of double plastic boots. These are boots with a waterproof and freeze-proof plastic [...] Read more »
Karrimor Steps Out
The folks down at Karrimor footwear tell me they’ve just launched a new line of boots, approach shoes and sandals after my earlier review of their KSB boot. After some good experiences with their boots and approach shoes (so good in fact that I just bought a new set of leather boots from them) I’m [...] Read more »
Boots and All – Karrimor KSB Hiking Boot Reviewed
There’s no other piece of kit that’s loved or hated as fiercely as a pair of mud encrusted boots. If they fit well and are good for the job at hand, they’re almost out of mind. But if they don’t – boy, do your feet let you know about. Not surprisingly they fill the pages [...] Read more »
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