Thread: New boots... It's time!!

I had a chat with a rep from a fairly well known boot company and it's pretty common across all modern boots to have soles delaminate and fall apart over time. Wilderness magazine have done a few articles on this. Like anything, it's a tradeoff between comfort and longevity. Sometimes the boots can sit on a shop shelf for a long time (especially unusual sizes) while the rubber and glue is quietly deteriorating. Ironically it's the boots that don't get used very often that seem to suffer worse.

It's not what you want to hear after dropping big money on boots!