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Buying Waterproof Shoes & Drying Hiking Shoes Post 353

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Drying hiking shoes over a radiator. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. I went hiking with a group in the Picos de Europe (meaning peaks of Europe) a line of mountains in Spain. The weather had been rainy. I worried that I would fall over, spoil my clothes, injure myself.  The others were wearing old clothes and many of them were up in the rocky areas. some of them hiked every weekend. They were better equipped, or had already got stained and torn clothes which were specially for hiking.  The first morning, near the wait for the cable car, I had gone into a well equipped shop to buy a new rucksack. Waterproof Shoes I had heard a customer in the shop at the base of the cable car ask for waterproof shoes. The seller said the shoes were not entirely waterproof but water repellent. The customer was satisfied and bought them. I had not thought that my shoes had any special qualities, or I had forgotten. Mine are brand FILA, or FIL with what looks like a letter A missing the bar. ...