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    Default shoes storage poll: in tent, vestibule or tarp, bag, shelter

    Where do you store your shoes when sleeping?
    definitions:indoors: in the shelter's netted areaoutdoors: not indoors

    options format:
    [indoors or outdoors], [the container they're in or the cover put on them]
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    post #1 fixed:

    Where do you store your shoes when sleeping?
    definitions:indoors: in the shelter's netted areaoutdoors: not indoors

    options format:
    [indoors or outdoors], [the container they're in or the cover put on them]
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    Where do you store your shoes when sleeping?
    definitions:
    indoors: in the shelter's netted area
    outdoors: not indoors

    options format:
    [indoors or outdoors], [the container they're in or the cover put on them]
    David Smolinski

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    Post #3 is post #1 fixed.
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    Sorry, your poll is too confusing.

    And my answer depends upon where I'm at (so I don't have just one answer).

    Typically, I simply store them under the vestibule of my tent to keep them out of the rain.

    But when I thru-hiked the JMT, resupply was difficult and I had heard warnings of critters chewing on equipment left outside the tent.
    So I brought my boots into the tent with me for the night. But to keep my tent clean, I placed them on the sitting/knee pad with the pad turned "dirty side up". That way, the clean side of the pad was sitting on the "clean" floor of my tent, while the dirty side of the boots sat on the dirty side of the pad.

    Try something like:
    1. Storage Bag (Sealed)
    2. Storage Bag (Breathable)
    3. Tent
    4. Vestibule/Tarp
    5. Other Covered

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    Agree with Hookoo, the poll isn't clear.

    I leave my shoes in the vestibule, out of the rain, but in easy reach if I need to step out of the tent. It's hard enough to stay clean in the woods without purposely bringing mud and debris inside the tent.

    Only time I've brought shoes inside the tent was when I was using a [borrowed] tent that didn't have a vestibule.

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    examples:

    indoors:
    in a tent or hammock

    outdoors:
    uncovered or under a tarp or vestibule

    sealed:
    in a dry sac

    breathable:
    in a mesh bag

    outdoors, breathable:
    They're in a vestibule. Mesh covers are on the shoes' openings.
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    I'll make new polls for
    1. location
    2. container
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    Vestibule within easy reach.
    sooner or later there comes a time

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    I typically bring them in, because I don't need mice or other critters chewing on them. It happens.

    But, like others have said, I try to keep the mud & gunk under control as much as possible, so I actually put them in a plastic bag -- one of those turkey basting bags. I usually keep it open so the boots can air out, but in uber cold temps, I've tied it up and stuffed it in the foot of my sleeping bag. Tight fit though.
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    huh?......

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    I usually go with no 1 but could be considered no 4 . I agree with post no 4 and about post no 1 but never no 4 beyond the vestibule. Unless of course I go with no 6 or 7.
    I need tp for my bung hole!

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    Mine are either:
    a) laces tied together and hung on the hammock ridgeline, or
    b) placed in my gear loft (a small hammock storage thingy that's suspended from the ridgeline)

    I can't figure out from the choices in the poll which box would cover either of those options, but that's how I do it. I guess the shorter answer would be off the ground but under my tarp.

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    For me this is pretty straight forward, I got a 2-person tent so I can comfortably keep my pack and hiking footwear in the tent with me for several reasons. Airing/drying footwear out is always a good idea, if they are wet it will help them dry a little. Keeping rodents from being attracted to sweat salt on footwear is paramount, I once had a porcupine drag a 2-lb boot a fair distance from the tent for the salt (perhaps also for the leather as they had a jaunty look), fortunately it left a pretty good track I could follow to get it back with a bit of careful prodding of a long stick. So to reduce the opportunity for diminutive rascals from stealing gear away in the dead of night, lessen the impact of precipitation, and keep gear close by for easy access, everything comes into the tent.

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    There are too many variables in any given trip for a meaningful answer. Shoes wet, dry, muddy? Overnight temps freezing or not? Rain/snow expected?

    And what's the level of stink? After a couple of weeks in the desert, how far away can I put them? Maybe next to my shirt and trousers that no longer fold.
    "Throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence." John Muir on expedition planning

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    Uncovered, under the vestibule, within easy reach.
    "Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L’Amour

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lone Wolf View Post
    huh?......
    lol. ditto.

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    I put mine in my tent at the foot of my sleeping bag in a plastic grocery bag to keep everything clean. I loosen up the laces and pull up the insoles si that the boots air out and dry.

    I sometimes leave my pack in the vestibule but generally I worry about the critters . I’d never leave my boots outside, I don’t like to hike in my camp shoes.
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    As someone who cowboy camps 90+% of the time, they go right next to me on my left just off my ground sheet with the laces tied loosely so I can slip them on easy in the middle of the night (or so if they freeze, I can still get my feet into them). If it rains, they go under my tarp just above my head (not on the ground cloth). Never cover them up. Why would I? I do turn them upside down and give them a hard wack before putting them on just in case. Never saw anything come out other than an ant once.

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    I once put on my shoes and realized after a few minutes of camp chores that something felt odd in one of them.

    Turned out to be a slug. Pretty icky. So now I put them in one of those small plastic grocery bags.

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