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Originally posted by Naphtali:
Among Shoe packs, pack boots, "Mickey Mouse" boots, or many others — in Alaska fall and winter away from swampy shoreline muck, what boot designs, and what boot brands have reputations for excellent, durable quality?

Possibles that come to my mind are Montana made Schnee's [pronounced shnays] pack boots with swappable Thinsulate® boot liners, and American and/or Canadian made L.L. Bean's Maine Shoepacks. While it seems as though every outdoor vendor sells somebody's combination rubber bottom-leather top lugged boots, this design is but a fraction of cold weather and/or wet weather boots.
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Rather than requesting top-of-the-line of a boot design, I ask those who live in Alaska and those who hunt their reasonably regularly:

The only assumption I make is that boots are among the few where "best" is essential — that is, more important than firearms, knives, and binocular. In Alaska fall and winter away from swampy shoreline muck, what boot designs, and what boot brands have reputations for excellent, durable quality?

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Originally posted by tsturm:

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Originally posted by Naphtali:
Among Shoe packs, pack boots, "Mickey Mouse" boots, or many others — in Alaska fall and winter away from swampy shoreline muck, what boot designs, and what boot brands have reputations for excellent, durable quality?

Possibles that come to my mind are Montana made Schnee's [pronounced shnays] pack boots with swappable Thinsulate® boot liners, and American and/or Canadian made L.L. Bean's Maine Shoepacks. While it seems as though every outdoor vendor sells somebody's combination rubber bottom-leather top lugged boots, this design is but a fraction of cold weather and/or wet weather boots.
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Rather than requesting top-of-the-line of a boot design, I ask those who live in Alaska and those who hunt their reasonably regularly:

The only assumption I make is that boots are among the few where "best" is essential — that is, more important than firearms, knives, and binocular. In Alaska fall and winter away from swampy shoreline muck, what boot designs, and what boot brands have reputations for excellent, durable quality?

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