Footwear for icy bogs

[Hank]

There is of course the "other" option...

[manothemoors]

And if you can't manage that, do you ask someone else for a "donation"???

[IanDarkpeak]

There is of course the "other" option...

LOL

Q do you do each others or your own?

[Rob Furness]

I just wear my shoes to drive home, by then they're usually nicely thawed out. The main problem for me though is managing to untie wet walsh laces with cold hands, given that they're practically impossible to undo even at the best of times!

[Hank]

LOL

Q do you do each others or your own?

That depends, although, of course, gallantry dictates that a real gentleman should do a lady's given the impracticalities of her doing her own.

[plodding bear]

Not as much fun for the specatators, though!
Me, I got shot of me walsh laces, and put the last pair of inov8 ones in them. Easier to undo by a long shot. That's my combo now, walsh shoes and some other bugger's laces in them!

[snewby]

Jake uses Porelle socks plus wool mixture socks - Walsh shoes though you wouldn't be able to tell since they are covered in bog most of the time
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jake has used this combination down to -8 through to slush around 1 c for upto 7 miles without issue. we use lacelock to avoid the issue of trying to get frozen walsh laces off !

I use sealskinz plus wool socks

[Mossdog]

True that Sealskinz do hold water; but I've always relied on the "wet suit effect" - the held water (only a small quantity in snug fitting Sealskinz) does warm up. Whereas wool socks are always taking a fresh inundation of cold/freezing water. Biggest issue for the Bowland Bats is getting back to the cars and finding that we can't untie the laces as they have become encased in blocks of ice. Only solutions so far ( we are all too tight / impoverished to cut laces ) is to start the vehicles and use the exhaust to melt the ice.

Agree with this. The wet suit effect of sealskinz does help (altho I still get annoyed that they don't do what they say 'on the tin'). Smartwool do some thin merino liner sock which improve the 'wet suit' effect even further. As long as you keep running they do seem to warm up (eventually )

[wheezing donkey]

I just wear my shoes to drive home, by then they're usually nicely thawed out. The main problem for me though is managing to untie wet walsh laces with cold hands, given that they're practically impossible to undo even at the best of times!

The Bowland Bat Runs are quite social affairs, involving a visit to the pub on the way home!

[IanDarkpeak]

Agree with this. The wet suit effect of sealskinz does help (altho I still get annoyed that they don't do what they say 'on the tin'). Smartwool do some thin merino liner sock which improve the 'wet suit' effect even further. As long as you keep running they do seem to warm up (eventually )

they kept my feet warm over th weekend in Snowdonia however they are not waterproof any more Whilst descending the fence line above Cloggy I slipped and flew in to barbed wire fence. My right ankle taking the brunt of it, Ankle badly scratched but my seal skinz......!!! shredded errrrrm..... Santa I've been really good.