Long time RS peruser, first time caller, but looking for some specific feedback/ advice.
Narrowed down new boots to Lapponia Lites or the IIIs but torn between them, mainly just because the Lites are marketed as ‘early season’ boots and the IIIs as ‘year round do it all-ers’ but:::
My feet don’t get cold (they run hot/ sweaty year round), I live and hunt and hike year round in the southern rockies: snow, boulder fields, scree slopes, steep grades, cactus, are the worst of it and the IIIs would seemingly make sense, but… I’ve walked, hiked, hunted, packed over all these terrains and weather in trail runners, worn out lone peak boots, even sanuks when walking the dogs off trail in the high desert; point being.. I don’t feel like I NEED a lot of ankle support, nor a warmer boot. Even on packed hunts in my Zamberlan Sierras, I feel like they’re too much, too stiff, uncomfortable, and for my feet, blister inducing as hell (will be selling).
Definitely a fan of ‘light and fast’. Just fixated on the marketing term ‘early season’ and don’t want to sell myself short with the Lites.
So is there any reason a smarter person than me can see for going the IIIs over the Lites?
Narrowed down new boots to Lapponia Lites or the IIIs but torn between them, mainly just because the Lites are marketed as ‘early season’ boots and the IIIs as ‘year round do it all-ers’ but:::
My feet don’t get cold (they run hot/ sweaty year round), I live and hunt and hike year round in the southern rockies: snow, boulder fields, scree slopes, steep grades, cactus, are the worst of it and the IIIs would seemingly make sense, but… I’ve walked, hiked, hunted, packed over all these terrains and weather in trail runners, worn out lone peak boots, even sanuks when walking the dogs off trail in the high desert; point being.. I don’t feel like I NEED a lot of ankle support, nor a warmer boot. Even on packed hunts in my Zamberlan Sierras, I feel like they’re too much, too stiff, uncomfortable, and for my feet, blister inducing as hell (will be selling).
Definitely a fan of ‘light and fast’. Just fixated on the marketing term ‘early season’ and don’t want to sell myself short with the Lites.
So is there any reason a smarter person than me can see for going the IIIs over the Lites?