Blister prevention elk country

[elk ninja]

Of all the advice for ELK HUNTING (not just hiking), dave2old's advice is the best.
Mike

[PowDuck]

Different people are different. For me, the liner socks cause problems. I just wear a GOOD pair of Merino wools socks (typically at least 70-75% merino wool.)

As said before, the downhill part is tough on you. Kills my knees. I started doing lunge-walking for that and made a huge difference last year.

If you're going to be covering a fair amount of hiking getting to your main hunting area get a good pair of HIKING boots, not necessarily hunting boots.

While in Colorado last year we ran across several guys from CO. Most all of them were wearing hiking type shoes rather than big hunting boots.

[Rick McGowan]

Of course well fitted and broken in quality footwear is the most important thing and something that took me a while to figure out, "life is to short to wear cheap socks!" I like Thorlo socks and they make about a 100 different styles designed for specific activities. I prefer a midweight sock with a coolmax or polypro liner. It is VERY important to get your boots fitted with the socks you are going to wear. I also ALWAYS sprinkle foot powder(cornstarch) in my boots and socks, it helps keep your feet dry makes it easier to slide your feet into the boots. I also ALWAYS take an extra set of socks and liners(treated with cornstarch)in a ziploc bag in my pack. At lunch time I take my boots and socks off and let my feet cool off, at bare minimum I switch socks from one foot to the other. I also try to have two pairs of boots and alternate them daily. As soon as I get back to camp, I take my boots off and put on a pair of camp shoes.

[Paul WA]

Danner Boots

[John Scifres]

I am a recent Wigwam socks convert.  I used to like Smartwool a lot but the Wigwam really wick the mositure plus they don't have the shrinkage problem that smartwool does for me.

[Slappy]

Why you walkin'?  Get an ATV like everyone else!

[twoblade]

lathrop and sons blister kit
stepen will put together what you need.
not cheap but these guys know what to do.