Women’s Hiking Boot Lasts

Description

These are women’s hiking boot lasts for making hiking boots. Hiking boots require stiff soles for managing potentially uneven and rocky terrain. Given this the sole does not easily flex and thus ample heel height and toe spring are designed into the boot last to pre-position the foot into the rolling posture for walking. The toe spring reduces tendency to trip on rocks and the heel height helps for breaking while going down hill, and also for a heel that will withstand many miles of use before needing resoling. By default, this boot last is designed for sport sock to be worn, but this can be adjusted to a wool sock etc. in the ordering form. As such, there is extra girth to accommodate the sport sock when compared to the standard dress sock. Standard sock lining of 0.5mm is built into the design, but likely this should be adjusted to allow for a more accommodative shoe insert or orthotic. The voluminous toe box helps prevent force from being applied to the toes while hiking. For even more accommodation, a toe box more like that of the zero drop barefoot shoe lasts could be swapped in. The low but sloped cone, generous heel cup, and sloped cuboid allow easy entry of the foot into the boot while holding it down snuggly when the boot is laced up. The original size is a US women’s 7D but can be graded to any size.