SECRET TIP To Keep Your Feet Dry When Crossing Water Obstacles
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- SECRET TIP To Keep Your Feet Dry When Crossing Water Obstacles
Keeping your feet as dry as possible, for as long as possible, is one of the Golden Rules when operating in the Great Outdoors, however that's no easy feat when your route involves crossing water.
In this video I share a tip that will help to keep your feet dry when crossing water obstacles such as rivers, strems, brooks, creeks etc on foot.
0:00 Intro
0:26 Why it's important you keep your feet dry
01:30 How to use tape and your trekking poles to keep your feet dry.
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I have markings carved on my walking staff for similar reasons, I also carry a pair of crocs to wear on bare feet to cross water and at night round camp just to let my feet breathe
+seanthomasdowd Hi seanthomasdowd and many thanks as always for supporting my channel by taking the time to drop by, watch and comment, it's really appreciated.
Thank you for sharing your own practices in this area, cheers! Don't forget to share the video if you think that others in your network might benefit, I'd really appreciate it, cheers! 👍
I send one of my bearers ahead of me… :)
It's a wise tactic! 👍
Great ideas! Thank you!
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Good tips Craig.
If I have to cross a stream I take my socks off, insoles out of the boots and put my gaiters back on. Cross then empty the water from the boots as best I can. Give my feet a rub dry, replace the insoles and socks. Off I go. I had some Yeti gaiters some years ago that were almost like wearing wellingtons.
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Great tip.
You're very welcome Ian, let me know if you get the opportunity to try it out.
On a known track with a known depth, I covered my boots with plastic shopping bags. Tied the tops shut with old boot laces.
There were two sections flooded to about calf depth but only about 50-100m long. It was not worth carrying wetsuit boots.
Later I did carry wetsuit boots and walked the loop so the wet part was nearer the end.
When too much of the track was wet and it was not worth swapping footwear, I wore old shoes, knee length woollen socks and gaiters.
NB This is a walk I do almost daily. Track is cream gravel and very clear through the water. The water is not flowing. It is not overly cold. The walk is five minutes drive from home.
If you look at my channel there is a video called "a rainy day in the common" showing me in wetsuit boots.
The other videos are canteen cup cooking mostly.
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On canoe trips, I used to wear knee high mukluks made of neoprene. While water didn’t’ get in sweat did. So my feet got wet. I also carried a pair of trail shoes to wear once we hit camp. All of that was kind of a pain.
Now, I wear Crocks fro the time I leave home, all through the trip, and until I’m home again. I take along 3-4 pairs of light weight sock liners made of some petroleum based fabric that dries quickly. In camp, I change into wool socks in the Crocks. Wool socks coddle and pamper my tootsies quite nicely. One might even say luxuriously.
This system is way simpler (KISS), way less expensive, way less labor intensive, and way more satisfying. The vent-cum-drain holes in the Crocks let me feet dry some in between launches and landings. Walking is just as comfortable as in trail shoes, and way less expensive than mukluks and trail shoes together. And - unlike wearing hazardous sandals - my toes are protected and not cut or bruised.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Thank you for taking the time to provide such a detailed insight into your own setup, it's really appreciated.
Well done!
Thank you.
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Every day is a school day! I’ve never really thought about it like that, I’ve used them more to check the firmness underfoot rather than the actual depth although I suppose that is part of it but more on a subconscious level. I’ve only ever marked poles for measuring slope angles in winter but only once or twice and more of an exercise especially nowadays as most phones have a clinometer function.
Glad you enjoyed the video and found it useful, thank you for sharing your own ideas about using trekking poles beyond their standard use case.
Good advice and good presentation. This is something similar to what I’ve used by carving a notch in a walking staff. Although I didn’t think to mark knee deep as well so I’ve learned something new from you but I guess that we’re all padawans.
Thanks for watching and providing such positive feedback. Stay safe 👍
Genius! Why didn't I think of this? (Don't answer that!)
Sometimes it's the simplest things, right?
Good tips as allways, New to your channel . Been watching quite a few vids and I find it quite entertaining. What I like the most is the parts about " Bushcrafting" You are defenitly on the rigth side there but some people seems to take too seriusly. When I was younger we went out fishing or hunting doing just this without knowing that we were Bushcrafting. Have done the same with my sons since they were really small and I don`t think they knew they were Bushcrafting, they were just out fishing!! ;) Keep up the good job.
Thank you for your kind words Per, they mean a great deal, so thank you for taking the time to share.
I've hiked a million miles (give or take) and never thought of doing this. :-/
I know exactly what you mean. I'll often watch or read something and then kick myself for not coming to that same conclusion sooner myself.
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@@TheBushcraftPadawan Wrapping some gaffa around your lighter is another one. Takes no space weight - always got a reliable fire starter + all the other uses a bit of gaffa tape can be put to.
The word secret was a bit strong!
I may be prone to sensationalism from time to time 😉
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