Instead to buy additional moleskin pads for hiking on the PCT buy boots that will provide you with incredible comfort, such as St Elias FG GTX hiking boots from Vasque. Whether you're driving through a moss-covered forest or the arid terrain of the Anza-Borrego Desert All-Terrain Compound in the midsole keeps your feet comfortable with foam pods and synthetic shank allowing you to speed up that 15-mile day into a 20-mile day. mile day. If it rains at mile 18 , GORE-TEX membrane will keep your feet dry and if you have to jump through puddles through the melting early summer snow The ankle cuff will withstand even shallow water.