The boot salesmen always say "you can stand in a bathtub of water with them, won't leak", but hiking through wet grass is what I consider the real test.
We got blocked out of our pack-in camp this year and settled for a hike-in camp a mile away with some great new territory that came as a surprise. Anyway, luckily we had an extra pair of boots to swap out as needed as the ones we were wearing in wet grass would just get filled with water. Pulling those on in the morning really sucks. My partner swears he will never buy GTX again.
He had Danners and a pair of Merrells, I had two pair of Merrells. Fit and performance was fine, just wet in some cool temps was the problem.
Are there goretex boots that don't take on water hiking in wet grass or do we need to move on to waxed all-leather boots? We wore gaiters.
We just take one pair when we pack in, so would like to have dry feet next year. Do you have to spend over 200 bucks for uninsulated boots to have feet that aren't all pruned up?
