How do you dry out your boots?

[aorams]

Get rid of GoreTex.

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What do you use as an alternative?

[aorams]

I will add that this past year, I started using a cylinder stove on backpack hunts, and it is a game changer.

Tell me more!  How did it improve your experience.  Can you dry out your stuff and keep the condensation down in the tent?  I'm very intrigued by the concept but want to know if I should moderate my expectations.

Yes, and yes. It's a huge help with condensation in a single wall, floorless shelter. It also is great for drying gear. The morale boost you get coming back to camp after a long, cold, and or wet day of hunting, just by starting a fire in the stove and warming up your shelter, is huge. Knowing that you don't have to put wet clothes back on in the morning is pretty awesome too. I love waking up in the morning, reaching out of my bag and starting a fire. I stay in my warm bag for 15-20 minutes until the tent heats up, then get dressed, eat some breakfast, and get ready to head out without freezing.
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I think that's gonna be my next purchase!

[Utah]

If its raining or snowing and crossing creeks wear Gators.  A fire is never a bad thing in wet weather.  If you really get screwed wear your boots in your sleeping bag at night. I'm thinking back country backpacking so I doubt I'll be packing any news paper or cotton socks. etc etc.. 

[fillthefreezer]

man, i know alot of guys really dig the little stoves but i just cant get behind it.
for me, its an ounce of prevention. i wear gaiters, always. too many times, ive waited too long to put them on. dealing with sweaty damp boots isnt too bad. put my daily damp socks in my pockets while i sleep in the dry socks to keep my feet from getting soft. take insoles out. if glassing, lay boots into the wind and socks and insoles in the sun.
now sometimes its inevitable and boots get wet. if it looks like this will be the case before leaving, ill bring a 3rd pair of socks and run a 3pr rotation, keeping one dry, drying one, and the other pair helps to dry the boots.
i like some of these ideas with the handwarmers though, and will probably give that a try.

[JimmyHoffa]

I tried the handwarmers before and didn't work out all that great for me.  If you leave the boot open, they get warm and the reaction would go too quickly and the warmer would be used up before drying.  If you stuff a sock in the top, enough oxygen is blocked that the warmers slowed down and weren't really warm enough to dry (but would last through the night).  In the morning, after pulling the warmer out it would heat up real fast again.  Probably some method of stuffing the sock just right that could do a better job.

[Magnum_Willys]

What kind of handwarmers work? The lil shake a pouch ones?

[passing-thru]

I just use newspaper stuffed in them. Let the newspaper dry through the day and use again the next night.

Yeah that 
My grandma taught me that many moons ago..have done my whole life

[mazama]

I would be very careful using drizair,i spilled it in my camper on the floor the carpet kept absorbing water,and I had to paint over it to stop it,is also very corrosive,i now put my containers in 2gallon buckets.

[swisski]

I will add that this past year, I started using a cylinder stove on backpack hunts, and it is a game changer.

Tell me more!  How did it improve your experience.  Can you dry out your stuff and keep the condensation down in the tent?  I'm very intrigued by the concept but want to know if I should moderate my expectations.

Yes, and yes. It's a huge help with condensation in a single wall, floorless shelter. It also is great for drying gear. The morale boost you get coming back to camp after a long, cold, and or wet day of hunting, just by starting a fire in the stove and warming up your shelter, is huge. Knowing that you don't have to put wet clothes back on in the morning is pretty awesome too. I love waking up in the morning, reaching out of my bag and starting a fire. I stay in my warm bag for 15-20 minutes until the tent heats up, then get dressed, eat some breakfast, and get ready to head out without freezing.

I think that's gonna be my next purchase!
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I think you will be happy with the stove setup! Since you already have the LBO, get one of their stoves as well. I use their 8 man tipi with the XL stove. You would probably be fine with their medium or large, depending on how often you want to stoke the stove. As one person suggested, planting 2 sticks in the ground and using them to dry your boots upside down (like a boot dryer) in conjunction with the stove does wonders. Worked well in the torrential couple days we hunted over on the peninsula.

[aorams]

Thank you... I'll probably order the medium!

[dreamingbig]

I don't leave the trailhead without a pair of goretex socks for those days when the boots get really soaked by dew/rain/wet grass.


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