Before anyone jumps on me about good boots being worth the investment I already have a quality pair of hiking boots (Danner Lights) but I’m going to be sending them out to be resoled soon, estimated turnaround time will be about 5-6 weeks, and I’m just looking for a temporary pair to hold me over for whatever hiking I do for the month or so I won’t have my main boots. After which these temporary boots will probably go into the trunk of my car as part of my emergency kit to hopefully never be worn again.
Anyone got a favorite pair of cheap boots?
Small checklist I’d like to have:
Wide sizes
Waterproof
Lightweight (though I’m not expecting miracles on that front)
Preferably about a 6" height, I’m flexible on that, but generally I prefer a taller boot.
I’d normally call $150 fairly cheap for boots (my Danners are, after all, north of $400) but for this case I’d probably call $150 my hard upper limit for this purpose.
I’ve also had pretty good luck with keen in the pasto but it’s been a while. If it weren’t for tariffs driving up the price those would probably have been my pick.
I have a stupid little voice in my head that would like to pay half of that for this purpose, but I know I’d be really scraping the bottom of the barrel at that price, so my ideal is probably around $100