Choosing Hiking Footwear
- Let your feet love walking
Feel free to browse these guides to help you choose your hiking footwear:
Hiking Boots – 12 points you must know
How often have you bought hiking boots and in no time you have blisters and aching feet. You’d be lucky to walk 5 miles never mind 20 miles in the wrong boots.Hiking boots are the most important equipment you will buy – it may also prove to be the most difficult! So your main objective is to find comfortable hiking boots that fit properly so you can walk all day without pain. We have written a 12 point guide to choosing hiking boots.
Crossing streams or rivers?
The right walking footwear will keep the water out of your boots.
(Left) Dolores, David's wife, crosses a river with no problem in her gore-tex lined boots and gaiters.
Hiking Shoes - helping you move quicker over easy terrain
Read our summary on different types of hiking shoes.The page
Hiking/Walking Shoes Versus Hiking Boots
reviews the pros and cons of all the crucial factors to help you decide what hiking footwear you'll need.
Gaiters - Keeping your hiking boots and socks dry
Stepped in any deep pools of water lately?Protect your boots and socks with gore-tex gaiters. Gaiters basically just wrap around the bottom of your leg and over the top half of your hiking boot or walking shoe and in winter help to keep your foot a little warmer. Usually made of gore-tex type material to make them waterproof they are invaluable for keeping water, mud, and stones out of your boots and they protect your pants and socks from abrasion and thistles. Read our low-down on gaiters.
Hiking Socks – a 3 point guide
Can this be sock science? Look at our 3 point hiking socks guide.
Hiking Boot Care – make them sparkle
Do your hiking boots look soggy, scuffed and tired? Bring your hiking boots back to life with our hiking boot care guide.
International Shoe Size Conversion Table
On our boots and socks pages we show US and UK sizes for quick reference.However these sizes can be easily cross referenced with sizes in other countries via the International Shoe Size Conversion Table (external site that opens in a new window).
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