Sticker shock
Sep. 20th, 2003 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikSo I have been thinking about getting custom alternations done on some hiking boots, or possibly getting custom hiking boots made. This isn't a matter of general snobbery. Even though I'm really picky about the fit of my boots, if I hike a reasonable amount I end up with ingrown toenails on the little toes, no toenails, scars all over my outer toes, and these big black patches that I think are some kind of unhappy blood blister.
This pretty much happens to some degree every year, but I'm hiking more, and with the shorter intervals between hikes and the in some cases longer and harder hikes, my feet have been taking a beating. (Okay, and in other ways too.)
So when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jadine and I were out looking at hiking boots for her, I talked a bit to the boot guy about what might help my poor feet. And he recommended looking for boots made on a straight last -- though REI doesn't carry any -- and possibly looking into custom made boots. He said there's this place in Portland...
I suspect it is this place:
http://www.craryshoes.com/gallery/index.htm
Yikes! I've had some custom shoes done before, and looked into others, and though I expected it to be steep, I wasn't thinking around $560! Gah!
Oh well. Back to plan A, which is to talk to the cobbler who does custom alterations on hiking boots in Fremont and see what my options are there. Maybe I should talk to my podiatrist, too. (At the very least, my feet would probably benefit from being taken in for a tune-up, and maybe he can tell me if I'm ever going to have a little toe nail on my right foot again.)
This pretty much happens to some degree every year, but I'm hiking more, and with the shorter intervals between hikes and the in some cases longer and harder hikes, my feet have been taking a beating. (Okay, and in other ways too.)
So when
jadine and I were out looking at hiking boots for her, I talked a bit to the boot guy about what might help my poor feet. And he recommended looking for boots made on a straight last -- though REI doesn't carry any -- and possibly looking into custom made boots. He said there's this place in Portland...I suspect it is this place:
http://www.craryshoes.com/gallery/index.htm
Yikes! I've had some custom shoes done before, and looked into others, and though I expected it to be steep, I wasn't thinking around $560! Gah!
Oh well. Back to plan A, which is to talk to the cobbler who does custom alterations on hiking boots in Fremont and see what my options are there. Maybe I should talk to my podiatrist, too. (At the very least, my feet would probably benefit from being taken in for a tune-up, and maybe he can tell me if I'm ever going to have a little toe nail on my right foot again.)
