How To Clean Hiking Boots - A Complete Maintenance Guide For Your Trekking Shoes 

A quality pair of hiking shoes are must-have while you are on the trail. While you might be able to pass if you hike on even, easy trails with a light load cladded in a moderate-quality pair of hiking boots or even sneakers, rough trails will completely destroy you if you wander onto them with a pair of hiking boots that’s anything short of the best.

Quality hiking boots, aside from being made from durable materials like leather with metal components to withstand against the weather and the treacherous terrain, also have extra paddings to keep your feet from being hurt. That’s the reason why a lot of hikers came back home with grotesque swellings and even sprained ankles trying to traverse rough paths using bad quality boots.

But regardless of how good your boots are and how tough they are designed and constructed, without proper care and maintenance, they will succumb and fall apart in only a few months with heavy use. That is why— if you haven’t— you should get into a habit of cleaning and maintaining your boots every once in a while.

Our team’s detailed hiking boots cleaning guide will help you with that!

In the first half of our guide, we will walk you through everything that you need to know about hiking boots. From the different types of boots, to the various materials that they are constructed from. These are crucial information to know because they can give you hints on how you should clean them and how frequently. Even if you are an experienced hiker, you shouldn’t also miss this part. You might learn something new about your boots, who knows!

In the second half, we dedicated it all to talking about the different techniques of boot cleaning. Light, spot cleaning techniques for lightly used and dirtied shoes that really don’t need a round of heavy cleaning to restore them to good condition. For grimy and dirty shoes that haven’t been cleaned in a while, we also got step-by-step instructions on how to thoroughly clean it all from top to bottom.

After all of the cleaning instructions are maintenance tips. It is there that you will learn about how to check and even reapply the waterproof coating on your shoes, maintain the leather outer material, or remove bad smell from your shoes. Accumulated sweat in the fabric shell is the perfect environment for foul scent-producing bacterias and fungi to grow. Our tips will make sure that not just the scent is removed but also the fabric is purged of these things.

Last are some bonus tips on how you can extend the life of your shoes. Because these shoes will have to face bad terrains and weather conditions, they can wear out pretty quickly. Some professional hikers go through several pairs in a year. Because quality hiking boots aren’t exactly cheap, you will save a pretty hefty amount by extending the service life of the ones you already have.

If we’ve already caught your attention and you would like to read the whole thing in details, here’s the link to the full guide: https://thekinglive.com/how-to-clean-hiking-boots-a-complete-guide.html