[pct-l] Insole-nt Question

[Diane Soini]

My experience has been similar to the others, although I did not have  
PF. My feet just hurt really bad the more supportive the shoes were.  
I had to quit the trail because of foot pain and I fixed it by never  
wearing stiff or supportive shoes ever again.

These days I've been wearing some cheap NB minimus shoes. The only  
problem I had was the other day doing trail work I stepped on a dry  
branch that had large thorns and one went right through to my foot  
and stuck there until I could take off my shoe. Ouch. But it's not  
like that's going to happen on the PCT.

I think cutting some insoles from a piece of vegetable tanned leather  
would work. I bought some at Tandy a while back when they had a sale.  
If I were hiking the PCT again, I still think I might carry some  
cushioning insoles for road walks. Those are murder on the feet.

On Feb 6, 2014, at 9:28 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> From: Michael Slusser <michael.slusser at gmail.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] Insole-nt Question
>
> The only concern is that, without an insole, I feel a lot of the  
> rocks and
> other detritus on the path. So the question is, does anyone have a  
> good
> suggestion for some sort of very, very thin padding to take the  
> place of
> the missing insoles?
>
> Muchas gracias,
>
> Professor Errant