Self destructing boots

As you know, this time last year, I was looking for some walking boots so I could go and climb some mountains.  Three of them, to be precise.  To be even more precise, Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowden.  Yes, the Three Peaks Challenge.  Although I did it in a girly lightweight style, climbing them over three days instead of 24 hours like the nutters do.

Obviously, if you’re going to be doing a lot of walking,  you’re going to need something decent on your feet.  I’d trawled the outdoor shops in my lunch hour (in the days when I had one of those job things) hoping to find something suitable that also looked good.  Bad mistake.  Good looking walking boots do. not. exist.  At all.  Ever.  The man in the shop said, “it’s not a fashion parade” as I tried on a pair of boots that even my 74 year mother would squirm at.  “But,” I protested, “they’re just soooooooooooo hideous!”  And they were.  Eventually, I found a shop with a pair that were just on the right side of not too hideous and I went home with my new walking boots.

Berghaus have made a pair that also aren’t too hideous.  In fact, I’d say they’re not too bad at all really.  I’m not sure what the two to three season thing means though.  Does that mean that after two or three seasons they’re going to fall apart?  So if you’re a complete lightweight and it takes you three seasons to do the Three Peaks and you’ve gone up Ben Nevis in the Spring, Scafell Pike in the Summer  and then you’re at the top of Snowden in the Autum and suddenly they disintegrate, leaving you to catch the train back down in your bare feet?  Just as well you left Snowden to last then, eh?

If you watch the Webtogs video, you can learn more about the boots, and hear some technical stuff that I don’t understand, like aggressive lugs.  And things I do understand like laces that expand when your feet get hot, I could do with that with my girly WAG boots.