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Posted by kutenay on March 19, 2008 at 11:05:52 am EDT
In reply to Choosing Off-trail Boots, Follow Logic or Hype? posted by overmywaders on March 17, 2008 at 1:56:16 pm EDT

I used to strongly recommend Vibergs and they WERE a superb boot, built here in B.C. to the old time standards of the great logging boots made by Heads and Pierre Paris until the '70s. However, they are not now what they once were, due to certain problems at the factory level. So, I would avoid these and, for forestry boots, I would buy Hoffman's or White's from the U.S.A.

Fire fighting, especially in typically rugged B.C. terrain and "big wood" will eat boots faster than anything; I know this from many years of it in two provincial forest services and private consulting firms.

A good pair of boots is a longterm investment and serious research into meeting YOUR specific needs is well worth the effort it takes, IMO; as rdavis points out, if a certain boot works well for you, as his choice does for him, then that's the way to go.

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