It's no secret, most of us don't take care of our boots like we should. We go out scouting, hiking, hunting and upon returning home our boots get pitched into the closet/garage and there they sit, dirty and waiting for a little TLC. The reality is that the TLC our boots crave seldom comes. 

Feet come in all shapes and sizes. Long, skinny, wide, short and all kinds of combinations in-between. Boots come in a few shapes and sizes too but not nearly as many as there are different feet. This makes finding the right boot fit sometimes tedious.

Feet are weird! The human foot is made up of three arches, twenty different muscles, 24 ligaments, 26 bones, and 33 joints. The bones in your two feet contain one-quarter of ALL the bones in your body. Most Podiatrists recognize five distinct foot shapes, and some anthropologists and genealogists believe the shape of a person's feet can provide insight into their ancestral origins.

The goal of this article is to look back on the season and give our audience a preview of some lessons you learned. Speaking from personal experience, everytime I go hunting, there are things that I do right, and things that I do wrong. Looking back on these can help us become better hunters, and by sharing these with others, maybe they can learn from our successes and mistakes.

In this AAR we chat with Ryan Carter of DC Outfitters, one of Utah's premier Elk hunting guide services.

I think everyone dreams of hunting Mountain Goats. I know I did. Some days I felt like it could be a real possibility and other times I felt like there was not a chance I could ever make it happen. But fate, hard work and friendship found us on the Alaska Coastline, hopping on a plane and headed into the bush to fulfill a pair of dreams.

The goal of this article is to look back on the season and give our audience a preview of some lessons you learned. Speaking from personal experience, everytime I go hunting, there are things that I do right, and things that I do wrong. Looking back on these can help us become better hunters, and by sharing these with others, maybe they can learn from our successes and mistakes.

In this AAR, we talk archery elk hunting with Kevin Passmore from The Mountain Project.

The goal of this article is to look back on the season and give our audience a preview of some lessons you learned. Speaking from personal experience, everytime we go hunting, there are things that we do right, and things that we do wrong. Looking back on these can help us become better hunters, and by sharing these with others, maybe they can learn from our successes and mistakes.

You have procrastinated long enough, and now you’re quickly realizing there’s a small window of time to prepare for your fall hunt. This program is written for a would-be archery elk hunter, but can be tweaked to suit any big game hunter wanting to drive home results. This program is no nonsense and fast paced to have you as ready as possible in a short amount of time. In addition, this is a great test for any athlete that wants to put their toe into the ElkShape methodology to see if THEY dig this approach to well rounded mountain fitness.

Q: What is one thing you did right this season? A: A lot of spot and stalk bear hunting is trial and error until you figure out where bears like to be. A couple of things we did right were getting out and spending time behind the glass in new areas. We saw bears almost every day, and we primarily looked for big mature boars. Don’t narrow yourself down to one certain area, I feel that we do a good job of staying mobile and looking over a lot of country to find the right bear. 

Our friends over at MTNTOUGH and trainer Jimmy Alsobrook built this incredibly effective workout specifically designed to help you endure deadfall. Every hunter who has spent time in the backcountry with a heavy pack knows how devastating traversing deadfall can be.

Follow SOLO HNTR Tim Burnett as he pursues a lifelong dream of chasing Dall sheep in Alaska. Available to the public in late September 2019, this film is debuting on CrispiUS.com first, along with multiple giveaaway opportunities!

Helping our customers with warranty issues is one of my main roles here at Crispi, and in my time I have seen and heard just about everything you can imagine. Most of our customers are good folks, just looking for a solution to a problem. Sometimes it is a legitimate issue that we are happy to help with. Other times it’s an issue that doesn’t fit into our warranty policy but we can still provide some help and a solution, while sometimes it is something completely different.

Boots have become sort of a frustrating topic for me. It seems that I’m always looking for the right boot for my needs and am usually left scratching my head. In the past, I have always landed on a soft sole boot. These have been great in terms of comfort, but in the land of durability and being waterproof?

Dustin Wittwer of Team Backcountry has been using the Crispi Idaho GTX for the better part of the year. He's drawn a coveted archery elk tag in Utah and has spent many miles scouting this summer for that hunt and as a culmination of time spent in the backcountry, we asked him to

One thing you learn early on as a mountain hunter is that if your feet aren't happy, you aren't having fun! If you choose the wrong boot for your feet and the conditions, you'll suffer and likely cut your trip short

Testing a mountain hunting boot can be accomplished anywhere in North America, but many mountain hunters have a different kind of respect for the proving grounds that Alaska can be on both footwear and hunting gear in general.

After two hunting seasons and easily over 300 miles of hiking, I can honestly say the Crispi Nevada’s are the best boots I have ever owned. I have yet to get a single blister or hot spot on my feet.

I recently purchased the Crispi Nevada boots for an over the counter tag elk hunt in Colorado.  As great as the boots felt when I tried them on, I did not have a lot of time to break them in and was a little worried taking them on the hunt.  We packed three miles in to a remote cabin and then...

In my line of work, being a boot is a tough job. It means long days, long nights and miles of rugged, unforgiving country.

I absolutely love my Crispi Idaho GTX boots.  They have countless miles logged on them, in every kind of weather you can imagine, and I have always stayed dry and comfortable.   I use them for everything, from early season bowhunting, to to mid season upland hunting and late season deer hunting, and they are an integral part of my hunting clothing.