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Sierra1

07/03/2012 01:08PM

I bought a pair of Chota Hippies for my latest trip up north and have to say I was pretty impressed. Kept my feet and clothing dry. Easy to put on and fit my boots. For wetfooting they really work well. All in all a good experience. Anyone have any issues, good or bad, with them?

Watch out for that rock!!!........ Oooo.... That's going to leave a mark...

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OldScout48

07/03/2012 01:43PM

I think their time has come and gone, its the 21th century. It is fun to see a burned out hippie every now and then and remember that for by the grace of God you could be him.

Old Scout

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gutmon

07/03/2012 04:24PM

Damn Hippies! Get a job!

"The trouble with the world isn't that people know too little, but that they know so much that just ain't so." Mark Twain

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mooseplums

07/03/2012 05:10PM

as with any stocking-foot wader you must buy your boots a size bigger to accommodate the neoprene sock. That is if they are as thick as most neoprene wader socks are.

I have looked at these, and considered them.

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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KevinL

07/03/2012 05:20PM

I like mine a lot. Used them with the combination of a ULA Rain Kilt the last week of May that rained 4 of 6 days. Great combination and I was dry the entire time from both rain and wet footing.

KevinL

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kanoes

07/03/2012 06:35PM

i usually wear my brookies (knee high neoprenes) with the trekkers, i didnt on the may trip.

im a wet wet footer now. ill not be going back to knee highs.

i think bigfoot is blurry. (mitch hedberg)

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luft

07/04/2012 12:18AM

I tried to get a pair this past month at Piragis, but they were out of the size smalls both times I stopped in. I wanted to try them on before I pulled the trigger as the mediums seemed too large in the foot.

I really like the idea that my feet wouldn't look like shriveled white cadaver feet at the end of a day of wet footing. I also just personally hate having wet cold socks on... I do it... but I don't like it.

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mooseplums

07/04/2012 11:44AM

I used to wet foot all the time when I was younger...but I hate it now..Last year I tried it again, and even with good shoes, and a good pair of wool socks, I got the blister from hell.

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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Beaverjack

07/04/2012 12:58PM

I just don't know that there's a perfect paddling shoe that will work well portaging. Is it bad juju to take a pair of hiking boots AND a pair of paddling shoes? Short portages are the real inconvenience when "two footing."

Tony

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