In more than 2,100 miles of hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2016, I never got a single blister on my feet. That was thanks, in part, to the miracle of Leukotape, which I applied at the most vaporous hint of a hotspot. But one hot, dry day on the Alabama Pinhoti Trail in November 2018, when bad intel on water sources resulted in a dry, 14-mile slog, my feet suffered mightily. Soaking them in the cool waters of a creek at sundown, ...
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