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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!mtu.edu!pecampbe
- From: pecampbe@mtu.edu (Paul Campbell)
- Subject: Re: Winter Boots
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.033551.866@mtu.edu>
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
- References: <1hfsdmINNc8a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <4505@cvbnetPrime.COM>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:35:51 GMT
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- In article <4505@cvbnetPrime.COM> padams@cvbnet.prime.com (cvbnet) writes:
- >From article <1hfsdmINNc8a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, by au143@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mikael Niku):
- >>
- >> There has been some discussion about winter boots.
- >> I'd like to ask (again !) if the concept of RUBBER BOOT is
- >> totally unknown to Americans, etc. !
- >>
- > rubber boots are not totally unknown. some of us refer to them
- >as 'pacs'. the only trouble with rubber is it's too easily penetrated
- >with a crampon. plastic boots help with that.
-
- Oh..those are everywhere in the U.S. where there is more than a little
- bit of snow. I don't use mine that much because my hiking boots are
- more comfortable indoors (my feet sweat in pacs inside) and I try not
- to end up in deep snow that often. Now that I spent the cash to get
- a pair of snow shoes, I doubt I will use the pacs at all except during
- Winter Carnival, where the snow statues are essentially mixed snow
- and ice and your feet get cold real quick if you don't have a water-
- proof boot (the snow is converted to the consistency of slush and
- packed into molds and then allowed to freeze). Most people even use
- the black, totally water proof gloves over the top of their normal
- gloves so they don't spend half the night inside thawing their hands
- and gloves, which get soaked as bad as your feet.
-