If Our Boots Could Talk

Sun 19 Jun, 2011 6:53 pm

: What are my boots saying to each other???

My latest blog piece has some fun with walking boots.

http://auntyscuttle.blogspot.com/2011/06/if-these-boots-could-talk.html

cheers

Peter

Sun 19 Jun, 2011 7:02 pm

Mine would say something along the lines of "bugger off, I'm too old and it's too damn cold out there".

Sun 19 Jun, 2011 10:42 pm

They might be saying " He made you stink too ". HaHa

Sun 19 Jun, 2011 10:59 pm

Mine would say "We've been sitting on the back deck for a week now, please clean and dubbin us"

Sun 19 Jun, 2011 11:14 pm

Please put me on, so I can blister your feet

Mon 20 Jun, 2011 12:24 am

The Zamberlans wouldnt be seen dead talking to those puny aku, scarpa or columbias (?)

Sun 26 Jun, 2011 8:59 pm

"Why, oh why, did you move to Melbourne? I miss that Tasmanian mud and cold far more than I expected"

Mon 27 Jun, 2011 6:59 am

These ones are saying, KILL ME... PLEASE JUST KILL ME

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Mon 27 Jun, 2011 12:18 pm

You wouldn't want to have an intimate conversation with mine, they have terrible halitosis.

Mon 27 Jun, 2011 12:22 pm

ILUVSWTAS wrote:These ones are saying, KILL ME... PLEASE JUST KILL ME

Ha Ha... good shot, they your rejects?
hey, there's probably a good set of gaiters in there somewhere?

Mon 27 Jun, 2011 2:58 pm

If my boots could speak, I wouldn't understand them.

They're Italian

Mon 27 Jun, 2011 4:15 pm

Are you sure Brendan?? Sometimes when you read the fine print it says "Designed in Italy, made in Romania" :oops:

... unless of course they're Zamberlan or Scarpa

cheers

Peter

PS - had a lovely day in "your" park yesterday with a bunch of other writers. Here are some of us.

Mon 27 Jun, 2011 4:39 pm

The fine print was in Italian too...

Mon 27 Jun, 2011 5:05 pm

"Questi stivali sono fatti per camminare!"

I cheated ... see Google Translate :lol:

Mon 27 Jun, 2011 5:24 pm

"uno di questi giorni questi stivali sono di andare a camminare su di te...."

or

se mi porterà attraverso la Arthurs di nuovo, farò la mia unica venire fuori, proprio come mio fratello ha fatto per voi. :roll:

Mon 27 Jun, 2011 7:02 pm

whynotwalk wrote:My latest blog piece has some fun with walking boots.

http://auntyscuttle.blogspot.com/2011/06/if-these-boots-could-talk.html

cheers

Peter

I enjoyed your blog very much Peter, Never knew the Irish made boots!

I also wear some "high mtn" Class C boots for most bushwalking. Love em!

Tue 28 Jun, 2011 10:35 am

Thanks for the feedback HH.

Your mountaineering boots look very similar to my old Boylans. I thought I really should add a photo, although the pasture they've been put out to looks far less glamorous than your photos. At least they're in good company!

: You've put me with a choofer??!! I'm not THAT redundant am I?

cheers

Peter

Tue 28 Jun, 2011 10:44 am

These shoes are saying to me, no more please, no more climbing. I'm sore.

Tue 28 Jun, 2011 10:51 am

And thaws are saying, you wimp, is that the best you can do.

Ps, photoshop job. Image not real, I never seen snow before, although that is me in the image, from a recent hike at the royal national park. I just cut it out and used a snow scene in the background. I had some comments on the walk, I looked like I was in snow hiking gear, I'm just missing the snow. I wanted to see what I looked like in snow and if I did look like I was in snow hiking gear, and wanted to play some tricks on my mates.

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Tue 28 Jun, 2011 10:22 pm

whynotwalk wrote:Thanks for the feedback HH.

Your mountaineering boots look very similar to my old Boylans. I thought I really should add a photo, although the pasture they've been put out to looks far less glamorous than your photos. At least they're in good company!

cheers

Peter

That is a beautiful boot! It looks well loved indeed!

Sat 16 Jul, 2011 9:52 pm

This is the first time I'v found reference to James Boylan since mine wore out.
They were the first pair I bought when I started work and had a bit of spare cash and they lasted me about 20 years of many long and testing walks in all conditions and surfaces.
They were exceptional. Comfort personified from the first walk until the soul parted company in The Walls when I had to tape it all together with electrical tape.

Interesting thing was the laces (classic red ones) were the same all through their life. Hard to believe but true.
Peter yours look similar - were they original in that photo?

Unfortuantely when they croaked they were no longer available.

Mon 18 Jul, 2011 8:25 pm

Hi taswegian - yep, those were the original red laces on my Boylans. Mine lasted years too, and I even had them re-soled when they had worn down to ballroom dance shoe standard!

I doubt the Irish still make mountaineering boots - the Italians (& Romanians) have it ... errrm ... stitched up. I'm certainly impressed with my new Zamberlans,

cheers

Peter

Thu 11 Aug, 2011 11:33 pm

I have ascended a few peaks in Norway, several in the French Alps, over 70 Munros in Scotland, a couple on mainland A and in my dotage over 60 in Tasmania. We are well over due for semi retirement, and it was with a great deal of sadness yet joy that our master informed us of a younger pair of boots to replace us. He insured uss that he would still take us out a few times each year as we could not cope with a clean separation. We hope to see you all again on the forum soon, from Scarpa R +L.

Thu 11 Aug, 2011 11:39 pm

They should have been buried years ago Doogs.

Fri 12 Aug, 2011 11:07 am

ha ha dotage, love that word

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