Re: Re: What's the latest and greatest for treating leather hiking boots?

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:25 PM, DonL <dladigin-/[email protected]> wrote
> ... Limmers. Absolutely the Rolls Royce of leather boots! Hikers on the
west coast didn't usually know what they were, but those from the east
coast sometimes approached me going "O.M.G. are those LIMMERS?!" :^)

> I've never lived close enough to New Hampshire to get fitted for the
classic custom-made Limmers, but when they started selling the standard
sized ones, I mail-ordered the Midweights and love them. (Kudos to the shoe
department at my local REI which gave me a good foot measurement with their
Bannock device). Great for scree or biting into consolidated snow and they
just don't leak. I got tired of how often "modern" boots would have their
seams split and how hard it is to adequately resole a boot with a glue-on
sole. I do feel the weight of the boot on uphills, but IMO they make up for
it in downhill stretches where I feel like I can really stride out with
confidence that my footwear won't twist on the odd rock.