Re: All season hiking shoes-boots Recommendations?

On Aug 28, 2:15=A0pm, "Wolf Leverich" <lever...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-08-28, y_p_w <y_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > There's nothing worse than an elitist telling people that they're
> > noobs, tourists, or no-so-bright because they choose footwear that's
> > appropriate for their own level of fitness.
>
> Naw, there's at least one thing worse.
>
> That being, of course, folks with relatively little experience
> giving [incorrect] one-size-fits-all advice with a degree of
> certainty that would lead you to believe the information was
> received directly from the mouth of Jesus.

I didn't give any one-sized fits all advice (that may have been
someone else).  I said I saw a lot of people wearing them and I didn't
consider them idiots for doing so.  I never said they have to be worn,
but of course my implication was that they might be considered given
the terrain and ankle-strength of the individual.  Yours was to paint
anyone with a certain choice of footwear in a hot climate as either
being a noob or an idiot.  If you want to criticize someone for their
advice, you could at least respond directly to that rather than a
follow-up (e.g. mine) that says something different.

> An awful lot of folks apply more religion than common sense and
> experimentation with regards to what they put on their feet.

My common sense tells me that well-ventilated high-top boots did just
fine going down Angels Landing in 85-90 deg F temps.  Or that the same
boots did fine as I hiked down and back up the (extremely rocky) South
Kaibab Trail at Grand Canyon NP in a late June morning.  Or that a
park ranger (who apparently did this once a week) hiking solo up to
the South Rim from Phantom Ranch was wearing a pair of high-top
leather hiking boots.

And you still don't seem to have a response for why cowboys seem to do
just fine wearing boots in the desert Southwest.  Granted - I do
remember a quote from a cowboy saying that he could easily do the job
"wearing tennis shoes and a ballcap", but that they have a traditional
sense of style that seems to be functional.  Heck - US military
personnel wear boots in some of the hottest climates in the world and
seem to do just fine.