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 A Casual Fellow
 
I don't like UER.
Location: New York City
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< on 10/7/2003 9:13 PM >
|  | | | I'm just wondering what kind of footwear you all wear on expeditions.
I wear combat boots, I've been wearing them for almost 4 years now and they've been very good. They're waterproof and I can step in puddles of water without fear of getting soaked. The only time that water ever penetrated my feet was when I went to Flushing Airport and stepped in the lake.
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Mochi
 
Location: West Jordan, Utah
Gender: Male
Stare deep into a kitty's nose.
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<Reply # 1 on 10/7/2003 9:50 PM >
| | | | Although this HAS been covered many times before, in many countless threads, it's time for another one to begin...
I wear my DDRing sneakers. (Dance Dance Revolution, FYI.) They're the quietest shoes I've EVER owned, but they're not too grand on the climbing scale. Oh well, I perfer the silence to the wall crawling.
>_< Mochi, I lost my sporks.
JESUS SAVES!!!
(And then he redeems his tickets for free prizes!) |
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Ben
Noble Donor
Location: Mojave Desert
Gender: Male
| | | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 2 on 10/7/2003 10:11 PM >
| | | | I wear mocassins that I weave out of aluminum foil and plastic wrap that I find in the dump. They may be loud and fall apart every day, but they're much more earth friendly than your bourgeois shoes.
I'll give Jester 1 USD if he doesn't reply to this thread.
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The Lost Flock
Location: Montreal, QC
Gender: Male
baaah.
| |  | | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 3 on 10/7/2003 10:16 PM >
| | | | I actually wear a pair of day-hiking shoes I got from Mountain equipment co-op. They're ankle high, but are totally waterproof and have badass treads. I've also been thinking of picking up a pair of Tabis, just to try them out.
-The Lost Flock
The Lost Flock is finding it's way.
Scaffolding is like monkey bars for adults. |
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sneaker98
Location: London, Ontario
Gender: Male
Gwar.
| | | | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 4 on 10/7/2003 10:40 PM >
| | | | im with LostFlock on this one, i have hiking shoes as well. Quieter than you'd think, very comfortable, and i can take off like a bat outta hell in them! They're "Lowa" brand, best shoes ive had to date.
A large, bear shaped animal, possibly a bear, has been spotted looking for food or possibly employment. |
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 5 on 10/7/2003 11:44 PM >
| | | | I usually wear old running shoes. I used to have a great pair of steel toed boots, but I wore 'em out.
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
"If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." |
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Krenta
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Nope, wasn't me.
| | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 6 on 10/8/2003 1:10 AM >
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I wear combat boots of many sorts, or near relatives - USN flight deck boots, for instance. It's not like UE is a fashion contest... but if it was, black boots pretty much go with everything. 
Most of us are a lot less anonymous than we think.
Have Speed Graphic, Will Travel. |
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Shane
Moderator
Location: Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 7 on 10/8/2003 2:37 AM >
| | | | I wear either Caterpillar steel toe boots with oil resistant soles, old sneakers, or knee high rubber boots with a steel shank depending on the conditions at the site.
"Because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention. The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better." -Chuck Palahniuk |
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Ferret
 
Location: Toronto
| | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 8 on 10/8/2003 3:51 AM >
| | | | Depending on the site, I'll wear either my steel toed Doc Marten work boots, or my Five-Ten rock scrambling shoes. I actually prefer the Five-Tens - they're light, and the soles will stick to almost anything, making them great for climbing (which is what Five-Tens are best known for), but sometimes you just want to make sure you leave with all your toes in the right places, not in your pockets!
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Mike Dijital
   
UEDB Moderator
Location: Boston MA.
Gender: Male
UE ver. 1.0
| | | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 9 on 10/8/2003 4:16 AM >
|  | | | I got a 20 $ pair of moccasins at payless, ( i love laceless shoes ) and as silly as it sounds , they are the best damn pair of splorin' shoes i've ever owned. and there light as hell too I've used hiking boots before and those are nice, and I once did a splorin' run in danvers state in teva sandals on a bet.
But i love them payless moccasins,
www.deggi5.com / www.mikedijital.com |
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Rockman
Noble Donor
| | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 10 on 10/8/2003 6:16 AM >
| | | | Canadian army surplus Garrison boots. Tough as hell, great treads, cheap and a LOT of ankle support. They do pretty well for climbing, and offer the protection I need from the stuff you come across exploring. Running is one thing they're a bit weak in(I only ever wear boots, so I'm used to it), but I'm not gonna climb of giant piles of sharp rubble in anything less.
I would love to get my hands on a pair of Tabis, though. I just don't know the best way to get my hands on a pair, and I'm not a big fan of ordering shit online. Does anyone know stores in the Toronto area that sell them?
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DarkTreader
Gender: Male
| | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 11 on 10/8/2003 7:04 AM >
| | | | IF you know anyone with access to a military clothing store (not surplus usually), try and get a pair of aviator jump boots - the kind that lace up 3/4 of the way to your knee, have the really thick treads, are waterproof to the top lip of the boots... they work rather well from what I've been told.
If you need something with a heavy tread and you're willing to sacrifice a touch of stealth, get an old pair of caterpillar work boots or something, then get a pair of army issue jungle boots... go to a shoe store and see if they can't get the thing re-soled, with the caterpillar tread on the jungle boots. I know a couple of Army guys that did this, and they've had the boots for about 7 years now, haven't broken down on them once.
Mochi: I usually go in my DDR shoes as well... unless I'm tunneling or draining or whatnot. Then I'll throw on the hiking boots with the ankle support ^_^
footsteps light, flashlights bright
-~ DT
Losers go home... winners go home and fuck the prom queen |
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j0lt
Location: Kobe, Japan
Gender: Male
| | | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 12 on 10/8/2003 4:37 PM >
|  | | | TABIS TABIS TABIS! 
There... Somebody hadda say it!
j0lt: Larger than life and twice as ugly! |
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 13 on 10/8/2003 11:56 PM >
| | | | I've been wearing moccasins a lot lately for almost everything; walking, biking, exploring, dumpster diving, etc. I still love my rubber fishing boots for hiking or walking anywhere with water or mud, I even climbed (hiked up) a few mountains wearing those.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
http://spamusement...hp/comics/view/137 |
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PonyGrl420
Location: NY
Gender: Female
huh??
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<Reply # 14 on 10/9/2003 2:21 AM >
| | | | I usualy wear my mud sneakers, (the ones i wear when we are 4 wheeling) an old pair of new balance running shoes. Very comftorbal quiet and pretty good grip. Def not water proof, now that its gettin cold out its gonna suck walkin around in wet shoes. As soon as i get a job and some money I wanna get a good pair of hiking boots
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Capone
Location: London, Ontario
Gender: Male
UEL
| | | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 15 on 10/9/2003 3:16 AM >
| | | | I used to wear regular running shoes to all UE missions. Now I have a nice pair of Terra boots. Air sole, comforable to walk in normally, and they're waterproof with a steel toe. You can't go wrong
As for cold weather, I got a story about that. On UEL's mission to the Canadian Blower Plant in Kitchener, which was sometime in mid-winter, I was wearing my regular old running shoes. To make a long story short, suffice it to say that between slogging through deep snow all day, and waiting for a bus when we got back to London, I ended up with minor frostbite on two of my toes. Not fun, trust me.
Let that be a lesson to all.....
So there I was, in this creepy old hallway... |
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Noah Vale
Location: Portland, Or
It's nobler to never get paid, than to bank on shit and dismay
| | | | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 16 on 10/9/2003 3:42 AM >
| | | | I wear just about anything. Steel toe rubber boots for the drains, regular old tennis shoes for most everything and the occasional tabi boots for when I expect to be climbing fence.
"Dallas is a magnificent and wide open city, and I'm deeply envious of any urban explorers who have the good fortune to live there." -Ninj. |
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Samurai
Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 17 on 10/9/2003 7:42 AM >
| | | | Most of the places here are industrial and I have this morbid freaky fear of having something come up through my foot on the next step. I'm a big fan of old fireboots... good traction, tall as like a fishing boot, steel toe AND steel sole. And you can usually get a used pair from a fire department for nothing, or next to nothing. If that's not an option, ebay usually has them.
and you're right, wet sneakers suck balls.
Samurai
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darkism
Gender: Male
hop on the bandwagon
| | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 18 on 10/9/2003 9:54 PM >
| | | | Like Mochi and DT, I also wear my DDR shoes everywhere.
It breaks them in nicely and allows me to move my feet around in my shoes for those ten-footers 
^_^ darkism, proud user of the bar!
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Ranger187
Location: NY/PA/NV
Gender: Male
| | |  | | | Re: UE Footwear.
<Reply # 19 on 10/10/2003 12:23 AM >
| | | | I so many shoes it's not funny...so I take whatever pair of Timberland's that are near me when we go out.
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