Gaiters - Important Factors For Walking Boots

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Gaiters - Important Factors For Walking Boots
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What are gaiters?

• Gaiters are an important element of your gear
  for winter spring backpacking.
• This garments worn over the shoe lower pant
  leg. Used primarily as personal protective
  equipment.

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Why Gaiters are Important

• Useful for adventurous tour.
•  Prevent sand, rocks, or snow from slipping
  in-between your pants the top of your boots.
• The hiking or the snow gaiters are usually made
  with material that is safe to be worn and
  protects our feet and calves from the dirt
• There are a number of factors that need to be
  considered before investing in a pair of running
  or hiking gaiters.

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Hiking Gaiters
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Factors to be Considered

• The Height
• The Material
• The Size
• The Fitting
• Quality

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• Height
• The height of the gaiters needs to be considered
  depending on the area that you would be covered.
• If you are planning to go out into the grassy
  terrains or the bushes, the gaiters that are long
  and cover major portion of your calf as well are
  the best ones.
• The short gaiters are the ones that cover the
  feet until the ankle.
• They can easily cover the basic footwear that you
  are wearing.
• These low cut gaiters help protect against dirt
  and dust

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• Material
• The basic material that gaiters were first made
  from is rubber.
• There was a time when the rubber was found to be
  the only most water repellent material that
  gaiters could be made from.
• There are many gaiters that are light weight,
  those that can be folded and easily carried.
• These materials not only make them waterproof and
  light weight, but there are also a few that make
  the gaiters durable.

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• The Size and the Fitting
• There are gaiters that come with a zip or a
  Velcro that they are fitted with.
• You can choose any size of gaiters thats fit
  your leg
• This helps seal your leg and not let any dirt
  particles enter inside the gaiters.
• Therefore, you need to be sure about the kind you
  prefer.
• The Velcro ones usually give you a tight fit, but
  these are the ones that are more prone to dust
  getting settled in the Velcro itself.

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