[at-l] all this boot camp talk! :)

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 09:49 PM 9/25/2004 -0500, Shane Steinkamp wrote:
> > I wonder if the real story is which of the above fool
> > each of our particular feet into thinking they are closer to
> > being barefoot? :)
> >
> > thru-thinker
> > [who has played many a beach volleyball tournament all
> > weekend long, running/jumping/turning while barefoot in hot
> > sand, and would prefer walking that way on the AT if I could
> > just glue a pair of superfeet or somethin' on my soles!]
>
>I started hiking barefoot when my boots - which had been VERY comfortable
>for a few hundred miles - suddenly started eating my feet.  I decided I was
>better off without the boots, so I ditched them and put on all my socks.  It
>was wonderful.
>
>I had a lot of trouble at first sometimes because my feet had been weakened
>by being in shoes and boots for so long.  Once my feet got their proper
>exercise, I had no trouble - except on sharp or prickly things.
>
>There's a bunch of people hiking barefoot.  There's even a book about it.
>
>http://www.barefooters.org/hikers/
>
>Shane

I like going barefoot but I find that my feet get cold very easily, long 
before other parts of my body are bothered by cold, and when my feet get 
cold I get cramps. Not fun. I don't suppose that's as big a problem in 
Louisiana as it is in NNY.


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