Thnks for the tip on Obenauf laces… I’ll check them out…
For the Danner foot tractors, the rubber sole w aluminum bars are super stiff and heavy… the upper is pretty thin and very light relative to the sole…I just think a beefier upper would give the boot a more balance and supportive feel… it would add weight, but those boots are already super heavy and I doubt a couple more ounces would matter…
The furthest I hiked/waded I’m a single day in the Danner foot tractors was 18.6 miles to a mountain lake and back… wore the boots the whole way, with nothing but a pair of neoprene liners…any wading boot would have been tough, but these were pretty brutal at the end of the day… if I had it to do over, I’d wear hiking boots and carry the wading boots…
