Remember prevention too: good, well fitting, tightly laced footwear that's been gradually 'run in'. I didn't buy the best as fieldwalking in heather shredded my previous pair which gave out abruptly, and didn't do the running in bit either earlier this year, so..new boots, did a seven hour exploratory fieldwalk in the aforementioned sandpapery heather, blistered heel after three, said 'damn it, it's taken this long to get out here, not giving up now'....and was limping and plastered up for three weeks after, so the other voluntary survey work I had lined up in the Peak Park didn't get done before the damn bracken erupted. That stuffed that. Lesson learnt : (
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