[pct-l] shoes

[bharve at dslextreme.com (Bruce Harvey)]

How about everyone emailing shoe makers with this message:  Quit labeling
any shoe as a trail runner, unless it has a gusseted tongue!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon & Chuck Chelin" <chelin@teleport.com>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>; <adrian.borner@ch.abb.com>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] shoes


> Good morning, Adrian,
>
> I'm having better luck with my latest pair of NB-806s.  They have well
over
> 1,100 miles on them, mostly on Pacific NW duff trails.  Initially I got
lots
> of small trail mix in the shoes, unusual because my Spandex gaiters
usually
> keep it out.  I notice even the small stuff because I wear really thin
> socks.  The problem was that the tongue of the 806 is only sewed across
the
> front, but not along the sides.  Small trail mix would get on the laces
just
> ahead of the gaiters, and sneak sideways past the tongue and into the
shoe.
> After I attached the sides of the tongue with contact cement I had no
> further problem.
>
> Everything else is fine, except the usual trashing of the fabric inside of
> the heels which doesn't seem to bother me.  In a previous pair of NB-805s
I
> glued really thin pieces of leather inside the heels which totally stopped
> the heel fabric wear, but it's kind of a pain to do.
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <adrian.borner@ch.abb.com>
> To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:54 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] shoes
>
>
> > For a long time I am using NB and was very happy. One of the main
reasons
> > I like them is the availability of extra width models.
> > While I used 3 pairs on the AT of the earlier models in 2001 and 2 pairs
> > on the first 1'000 miles Southbound on the PCT last year, my most recent
> > pair of 806 hardly lasted 500km on the JMT section. Already after a week
> > the toe caps became open and sand got into my shoes.
> > After the hike I sent them to NB but have not heard anything yet (not
that
> > I really expect anything).
> > Adrian
> >
> >
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