[pct-l] shoes

[chelin at teleport.com (Sharon & Chuck Chelin)]

Good evening, Bruce,

You are entirely correct.  I don't know who does the market research for,
and design of, some of these shoes, but I speculate that they may confuse an
asphalt trail in the city park with a real trail.

Steel-Eye

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Harvey" <bharve@dslextreme.com>
To: "Sharon & Chuck Chelin" <chelin@teleport.com>;
<pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>; <adrian.borner@ch.abb.com>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] shoes


> 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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