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| Average Rating: 3 out of 5
No. of Reviews: 10
RRP: £60
Year: 2003 Description: Skeetex walking type boot. Rubber lower half with suede uppers. Removable inner and foil technology for temperatures down to -30
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|  | | Posted: 18/10/06 | | 'SUMMER BOOTS ONLY!' | | Strengths:
Excellent summer boots, thermal properties not being quite as described has its advantages, even in warm conditions feet will feel reasonably cool and wont overheat much.
Excellent for walking in, not much different to some half decent walking boots in this respect.
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Rubbish insulation, (anything under 3 degrees C = very painfully cold feet and I’m young and healthy with no cold feet problems as a rule)
Rubbish quality manufacture, Within 6 months the rubber just bellow the leather at the back of the hell split right through, other signs of rubber perishing have appeared all over the top front and sides of both boots within this time period.
98% waterproof in English means you only let 2% as much water onto your feet as plodging bare foot, i.e. not waterproof at all beyond rubber bottoms.
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If you're looking for some winter footwear, do yourself a favour avoid these like you would a pair of wooden clogs, within a few days of having bought these boots I was sitting on the bank in probably 3 to 5 degrees C, wearing highly recommended bridgedale summit socks, and I kept telling myself, no I can’t possibly have cold feet, as the evening went on I DID have cold feet something that became more and more an issue as the winter went on.
Within 6 months the rubber at the back of the heel had completely split and various points around the front top of the boot were showing serious signs of rubber perish, I can’t help but feel that ‘some’ of the reviews on this site as well as by skee-tex are nothing but scandalous nonsense, these boots are atrocious for cold weather use! To describe them as all season is a blatant lie, if temperatures go bellow 0 degrees C regardless of what high tech sock wear you try to use you will still end up with very cold feet these boots are NOT Skee-tex Fieldboots, the whole advertising of these boot thermal liners is scandalous the fieldboot liners are far more substantial to describe the superboots liners as being ‘constructed the same’ is a bare faced lie, aluminium is only thermally effective when it’s reflective in a blackened form as found in these boots liners it acts as a heat sync, taking heat AWAY from your feet not insulating (basic science aluminium conducts heat 100x faster than solid ice!)
My above rant may seem harsh but an entire winter fishing a northern spate river with cold feet tends to do that to a person, I bought these boots based on reviews above, after having lived through the superboot nightmare for 1 year now I feel obliged to inform anyone willing to listen/read that the ‘positive’ reviews in my opinion are based on the ‘Fieldboots’ not the ‘Superboots’ as thermally these are a utter joke in anything that is remotely cold, I feel whoever made the claim they are good to -30 degrees C should be made to wear these boots and see how long they last at half that! Then post the photos as they have to have their frostbitten toes cut off!.
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