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Keen Oregon PCT - 3 Season Boots

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Keen Oregon PCT Review

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Men’s style

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SRP £120.00 Women’s 4 - 8 Men’s 8 - 13 (inc ½ sizes)

We have had the Oregon PCT 3 Season Boot on long term test at Trail Testers for the last 12 months and have to say that we are pretty impressed. I have difficult feet when it comes to boots. I broke my right foot quite badly a few years ago and this now requires a specially made medical insole. Both my feet have high insteps and are quite broad and if that wasn’t bad enough I suffer with in-growing big toe nails, making some boots quite a challenge to fit comfortably! In this respect the Keen Oregon PCT was a breath of fresh air.

Easy to Fit

From opening the box and slipping the boots on I was immediately impressed with the softness andcomfort. Most boots that we have for test require several days of padding round the carpets at home to break them in. This was not necessary with the Oregon and they proved to be ready to wear straight out of the box. This soft pliable construction made me a bit cautious as to how the boots would perform out on the hill , but I need not have worried as the Oregon has proved to be one of the most popular boots that we have had on test and has acquitted itself well in a number of situations.

Moulded Toe Cap

The Oregon PCT has a moulded toe cap which really works in protecting one’s toes from nasty knocks as you negotiate rocky paths. The boot design for the men’s and women’s boots are very similar and the mix of orange, grey and brown works really well together and goes with any number of trouser colour ways. The lacing works well and none of the cleats or fastenings has fallen off our boots during the year of hard testing and the laces seem as good as when they arrived.

Three Season

Keen describe the Oregon PCT as a 3 season boot and it certainly performs very well as an all round hill walking boot. We have used our test boots for hiking, hill walking and scrambling.

In order to give them a thorough test, we have also used them for multi day hikes, where they have been subjected to sloshing through bogs, torrential rain, something we have lots of in North Wales, clambering up

Waterproof Membrane

and down scree, as well as steep forest banks slick with pine needles and not forgetting negotiating fields and farm yards inches deep in muck and urine, something most of us have to negotiate at some time out in the hills. Just to make sure we left them wet and muddy for days, not cleaning them as we should, but giving them a real hammering!

Keen have their own waterproof membrane and this too is very effective at keeping the wet on the outside.

When you are wild camping, there are several reflective surfaces, so finding your boots when you need to dash outside in the middle of the night, shouldn’t be a problem.

So by rights after all that lot we should have found something negative to say....welll...er no actually, in fact these boots are very well designed and very well made and in our opinion are worth every penny of the £120 odd that they sell for. - Dawn Smith

Reflective strips can be clearly seen

Women’s style