[pct-l] footwear, blisters

[Yoshihiro Murakami]

Dear Diane

I am using very soft insole. So I can walk on the Asphalt road for a long time.
Your insole might be hard for level walking.


2011/3/2 Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>:
> I was never so hydrated as I was on the PCT. I swear I never had so much
> water to drink. I know that for most people the trail is really dry and they
> suffer, but I hike in places much worse than the PCT and in 2008 there was a
> lot of bonus water on the trail. I also tend to hike at home on the verge of
> dehydration. I'm totally used to dehydration, but on the PCT I was
> waterlogged.
>
> It could have been the goretex in my shoes, but after I traded my shoes out
> in Cabazon for some that had no goretex and were just a few pieces of fabric
> more than a pair of sandals, I can't say it was that, either.
>
> Also, shoes I have worn on other trails without blisters gave me blisters on
> the PCT.
>
> I can only guess it's the gentle grade of the PCT. It's too repetitive. I'm
> used to trails that climb steeply, have lots of rocks in the trail and that
> even require me to use loppers and a saw or crawl on my belly.
>
> Diane
> On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Yoshihiro Murakami wrote:
>>
>> Diana's case might be caused by the hydration. I don't know how much
>> she drinks in a day. But, if she drink more water, the  friction
>> coefficient of her foot will change.
>



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