4 Easy Tips To Avoid Blisters And Have A Better Hiking Experience!

In this video, I Stina, will give you our 4 best tips for avoiding blisters while hiking. Many videos are talking about how to take care of foot blisters when they already occurred but I think it’s better to prevent and not get any blisters at all. The topics I talk about are hiking footwear, hiking socks, foot taping, and foot care.
So, follow these easy tips and enjoy a better hiking experience without foot pain. Happy feet Happy Hiker!
/Stina & Matti
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We are Matti Holmgren and Stina Svensson. We live year-round with our Siberian Huskies and Border Collies in Jokkmokk, North of the Arctic Circle. We run a small guide company called JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA and offer outdoor tours in Jokkmokk, Swedish Lapland all around the year. During the winter we do mostly dog sled trips and in summertime, it’s canoe, packraft, hiking tours and wildlife safaris.
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Chapters:
00:00 Avoid Hiking Blisters - Intro
00:55 New Hiking Boots and Hiking Shoes
01:47 Hiking Socks
03:31 Foot Tape - How to Tape Your Feet
07:38 Let your feet free!
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[@ktownc936]

Stina !!! Where do I get a sweater like you're wearing !?!?! The neck looks WARM

[@tuholaflyfishing]

Another interesting video with useful tips. It's good to learn from you! PS. Hello from Matkakoski in Tornedalen! :)

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

👋😊 Hej!!!

[@st04bez]

Prevention is always better than the cure. Thank you so much for this video!

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

Happy to hear you find it useful 😀 /Stina

[@heather333]

I've just switched to Injinji 5 toe liner socks with marino wool thicker hiking socks. They're working great, so far. I'll be doing the West Highland Way/Great Glen Way in September, and I'm planning to use my Solomon trail runners and a pair of vibobarefoot boots. The double socks with thick marino socks help when using the barefoot boots on hard tracks. I'll switch to the Solomons for the road walking. 👍

[@mrfairycake4333]

Thanks

[@juliustonker]

Stort tack för tipsen. 👍🏼😊

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

Happy if I could help! /Stina

[@Fjall-Anders]

Tackar för ännu en bra film med väldigt bra tips😉

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

Tack Anders! 💚 /Stina

[@JohanGartner]

Riktigt bra video Stina!!!! Du e Riktigt bra på att lära ut! Tack för flera bra tips🔥🔥

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

Tack Johan ❤️🙏. /Stina

[@ianmacfarlane9454]

Another good video with great advice,thank you Stina 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

Thank you Ian! /Stina

[@camouflage962]

marvelous.... and so valuable to newbies....

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

Thanks 👍

[@MrWipex]

Best tips ever. It will save the whole trip, almost certainly. 👍🏻🤗

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

🙏Thanks, great to hear! /Stina

[@fanfarius]

Love your attitude… followed some Tipps for example about good trouser 👍🏽

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

Thank you 💚! Makes me happy to hear! /Stina

[@pirogenpaddler660]

Ultimate tip: Use a silicone foot instead of your original one! 😉 Mr Footy looks like the stamping foot from the old Monty Python sketches. (There is a German outdoor enthusiast here on YT who, as an amputee, once made a comment how happy she was that on a cold, wet morning she doesn't have to feel the damp inside of her boots like her colleagues. # Always look on the bright side of life ... Of course, in reality, if you need a prosthetic limp, you have to pay even greater care not to get sores where it attaches to your body.)

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

🤣

[@azclaimjumper]

Good information, Stina; very well presented. I've always worn 2 pair of socks, for the reason you mention, reduced friction between foot & boot. Warm Regards from Reno, Nevada U.S. A.✌👌

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

Thank you AZ ❤️! Happy to hear you liked my presentation. /Stina

[@kentscoffey]

That foot is toooooo realistic.

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

🤣 Yeahh, we have had a lot of fun with it, making jokes with friends and guests 😉. /Stina

[@domo3552]

An ex-client that gave a bad review?

[@snoop2477]

Hey Stina, thanks. Just wanted to pass on the double sock and strapping techniques worked so well for me. I'd done a big hike and used my Salomon boots - ended up with blisters on both ankles. I normally don't get blisters, but what had happened is I'd been using low cut Salomon runners over summer and my ankles weren't used to the rubbing. Happened at the start of a trip, applied my second pair of socks straight away (and promptly tore one) and plasters. Had to nurse over 66km. Learnt that you have to toughen your feet and ankles up to boot use. I had gotten out of the habit of using two pairs of socks. Also learnt I don't need boots! Went for a hike last weekend and strapped my ankles (blisters still healing) and used two pairs of socks - and my Salomon runners. Brilliant. Oh, and put better plasters in my medi-kit. Thanks so much!

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

I'm happy to hear that it worked for you, Donovan! 👣 /Stina

[@thomasf.9869]

Could you guys make a winter edition of this video? Preventing blisters in winter is doubly hard, especially if one uses vapour barrier liners (VBLs) to stop sweat from entering the boot. Ski boots also concentrate friction in particular places. I personally use boots with removable insulation (felt inner boots) so that I don't have to use VBLs. I dry them in my sleeping bag at night, placing Nalgene bottles with hot water into each inner. Although VBLs make the environment around the foot more humid, they also reduce friction. Are boots without water-proof membranes better for blister prevention, in so far as they prevent the buildup on humidity around the foot?

[@chrishatton1176]

Good video. I wonder if the tendency to wear Gore-Tex shoes/boots create the condition for more blistering than normal? It’s hard to find good hiking boots that don’t have a membrane in the US; I wish we had access to the kind of shell boots that you wear. I’m familiar with Lundhaugs, but not sure about other brands.

[@camouflage962]

Lowa, Meindl

[@JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA]

At the moment I use the Crispi Ranger boot but it's gore-tex in them. Matti use a Swedish boot called Jörn-kängan. It doesn't have any membran at all. /Stina

[@chrishatton1176]

@@camouflage962 thanks, I’m surprised I never heard of this boot. I own the Lowa Renegade.