Potter wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:55 pm
Oh and if we're talking about all day long comfy boots, then I bought a pair of these a few weeks ago and I can wear them round the clock, walk, run, sit, climb, anything, they're all day long comfortable.
For years I was a Meindl fan. Then something happened, I think the next generation took over and design/quality took a dive so I moved to Scarpa and tried various others. Currently finding Oboz Sawtooth range suit me quite well...worn a pair completely out but, of course, you can't really repair them
Boots are a bit odd when you get into it. You kind of expect German boots to be broad and Italian ones to be a bit narrower, then you find, in the outdoor world, there aren't that many companies involved in Europe, so 'Italian' boots are really German.
(Re the outdoor world, I used Arcteryx stuff when they were specialists, for things like rucsacs etc....then they took the dollar - because, as they explained, they needed investment to grow, and are now fa£hion. Pod used to make bomb-proof rucsacs, (when the couple that made them weren't clambering up mountains), in Sheffield. Now? It's all 'Made in China'. You just have to find people making good stuff before they get mopped up and absorbed into the 'outdoor business').