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Anyone have any ideas beyond plastic baggies inside the boots for keeping your feet dry on an extended period creek-bottom hike. Water is supposed to be ankle deep, and while I've got supposedly water-proof boots, my wife and our friend do not, so they are looking for cheap options. Also is there a backpacking "boot dryer" that runs off small propane cans or anything similar? They're worried about waking up in the morning to cold wet boots after our creek experience.

As for drying them overnight, just put some dispoable handwarmers in you boots and push the tongue of the boot down, that should dry them up before sunrise

fairweather8588 wrote:As for drying them overnight, just put some dispoable handwarmers in you boots and push the tongue of the boot down, that should dry them up before sunrise

Sweet tip. Thanks!

Synthetic socks and old tennis shoes. You feet will get wet, but you shouldn't get blisters.

Bring a pair of dry socks to change into after the hike is done.

To dry wet boots in the field fill a cooking pot with dry sand and heat it up on a stove or fire. Pour the sand into your boots and let them sit all night. Poor out the sand in the morning and magic - dry boots!

And whatever you do be careful with your boots around any kind of FIRE!

I know!

Read my post under Gear>Shelter, Bags & Camp>My First Hammock> dated February 19, 2008.