The biggest boot mistake I made was on an 11-day backpack trip in the Sierra with one of my old GS buddies. The boots themselves would have been fine, but I decided to use elastic boot laces. Did I mention this was in the mountains, where you're either going up or down 90% of the time? Oh, and I went with a pair of thin socks instead of my tried-and-true silk liner with thicker wool. Big mistake. Got blisters on day one and just had to deal with them the rest of the trip. My buddy loaned me a pair of her thick socks, which helped a lot. We had arranged for a horse packer to meet us at a trail about halfway through. They didn't show at the time we had agreed on. We eventually found our box of food in the bushes about a quarter mile away. That meant we carried our trash, empty fuel cans, and the box the rest of the trip. At least we were able to keep going. It was a great trip, despite some T2F.
I cannot imagine the anxiety caused by your food drop not showing up where/when you expected it to! And then to have to carry out extra stuff when you thought you were going to rid yourselves of trash!
The biggest boot mistake I made was on an 11-day backpack trip in the Sierra with one of my old GS buddies. The boots themselves would have been fine, but I decided to use elastic boot laces. Did I mention this was in the mountains, where you're either going up or down 90% of the time? Oh, and I went with a pair of thin socks instead of my tried-and-true silk liner with thicker wool. Big mistake. Got blisters on day one and just had to deal with them the rest of the trip. My buddy loaned me a pair of her thick socks, which helped a lot. We had arranged for a horse packer to meet us at a trail about halfway through. They didn't show at the time we had agreed on. We eventually found our box of food in the bushes about a quarter mile away. That meant we carried our trash, empty fuel cans, and the box the rest of the trip. At least we were able to keep going. It was a great trip, despite some T2F.
I cannot imagine the anxiety caused by your food drop not showing up where/when you expected it to! And then to have to carry out extra stuff when you thought you were going to rid yourselves of trash!