As part of her neverending effort to stay comfortable while hiking in the Smokies, the Bushwhacker located this essay by a fellow who specializes in extremely long hikes. I was interested right from the first sentence…
“While this pales in comparison to other important personal milestones such as “my first gray hair”, “my first speeding ticket”, “my first wife”, I’ve done the “extreme day hikes” of this web site and never had a blister — got a few last Sunday and didn’t even leave San Diego.”
http://www.dayhiker.com/articles/my_first_blister.htm