{"id":1785,"date":"2008-02-28T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/28\/hiking-boots-anybody-still-wearing-them\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:12:22","slug":"hiking-boots-anybody-still-wearing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/28\/hiking-boots-anybody-still-wearing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking boots: anybody still wearing them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize this is heresy against the footwear in my blog&#8217;s logo, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncooped.com\/Chrisjob\/posts\/481-Are-Hiking-Boots-Really-That-Good-of-an-Idea-\">a post at Uncooped<\/a> the other day reminded me I ought to throw this out there and see what sticks. When I was auditioning footwear awhile back I did try a few pairs of boots, but the rubbing against the skin above my ankles was such an annoyance that I looked elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve noted a few times around here, trail-running shoes (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altrec.com\/search\/?words=montrail\">Montrails especially<\/a>) have bulked-up padding below the ankles that provides a lot more support than you might suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The conventional wisdom used to be that you needed boots for hiking with a heavy pack; I suppose it&#8217;s still true, but does anybody hike with heavy packs these days? (I&#8217;m guessing I&#8217;d have to pay somebody to haul away my 7-pound Dana Designs Terraplane.)<\/p>\n<p>One thing I will cop to: the romance of breaking in a nice pair of leather boots, wearing down the soles and taking them to a cobbler to get resoled. I&#8217;ve heard tell of people using the same boots for years this way. The right boots can be like an old friend. Nobody ever thinks of running shoes that way: you just beat &#8217;em up and throw &#8217;em out (which is not exactly sustainable, come to think of it). <\/p>\n<p>So what you think, folks, above the ankle or below? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize this is heresy against the footwear in my blog&#8217;s logo, but a post at Uncooped the other day reminded me I ought to throw this out there and see what sticks. When I was auditioning footwear awhile back&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/28\/hiking-boots-anybody-still-wearing-them\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}