This man knows what he is talking about

Goretex is good for winter boots

Winter doesn't always mean Canadian blasted wasteland moonscape cold

Sometimes it's wet

You don't want wet shit and wet boot from stepping in a puddle then temo drops

yeah it gets real bad here

And you lose your foot

We have bipolar weather

Due to the altitude and mountains

So like snow can start melting the same day or the next and it’s always muddy as shit

It just snowed last week

The instant it's reliably above ~10C I would always switch to a dry weather boot

Goretex is still fine in colder temps like that but it's just more comfortable

so in conclusion, next boot purchase will not be goretex boot

It's a hard call

Ultra lite hikers swear by goretex boots

But they're normies who avoid anything that would be dangerous or otherwise extremely uncomfortable

Like fording rivers or some shit

I might be alone in this experience, but the American made Keene boots (specifically the durands) have proven to be extremely versatile in inclimate weather hot and cold.

I've always had better experiences with getting wet feet sooner into the 2 day rain storm then drying within an hour of it letting off than getting soaked feet half a day in and then needing to strip the boot off and dry it for 2 hours

Salos are based but I've gone through the speedlaces twice already and it's not like I do anything really hard either

hm

I haven't heard good things about the speed laces yeah

They're great until they wear out

@Smart Car Driveby actually yeah, it took forever for my goretex boots to dry after I had been stuck out in the rain last time I was in Florida

like it was bad and they smelled rank for a while afterwards

Because for water to move through goretex it has to be water vapor basically

Which means heat

Liquid water doesn't move through goretex

I fucking swear by durands, but they are a bit heavier then I'd like

So liquid water in a goretex boot stays there

yeah I had to go through and fucking use a hair dryer

just so I could use it the next day

That's the eternal downside to goretex boots

w2c goretex katana boots

That and I find it traps heat more than hot weather boots but that's probably also because hot weather boots are specifically designed to make heat fuck off as much as possible

makes sense

I only use AR500™️ sabatons and greaves when I hike

Do they have truck bed liner too?