A Good Boot: The Wolverine 1,000 Mile Boot Giveaway

1000 miles sounds like more than enough for the kids and I to explore our neck of the woods, for my wife and I to take those long walks we keep talking about but never seem to do, for myself to work around the house and yard to beautify the place where I live.

I would walk to the top of the Matterhorn in California. Gotta love Dharma Bums.

I’d wear these boots as I trek the vast tundra of Siberia.

If I had a nice, comfortable pair of boots, I would wear them when walking my young son of 8 months around, carrying him when he is having trouble sleeping or when his teeth are hurting him too much to play.

I will wear them while in the field after quail with Jet Vom Wiredhaus and hiking with my wife, who tolerates Jet, wherever she chooses.

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I’d finish my trek of the Appalachian Trail with my brother. We finished the Georgia portion this summer, but We’ve still got a ways to go. I’ve got a pair of Merrells but they didn’t hold up very well even after only 80 miles of trail. I need some tough leather boots to finish the job.

I would walk over to my kitchen, and perhaps the fifteen feet to my front door to the cab. I used to walk epic miles, but I am now disabled and happy to be able to walk at all and not be (yet) confined to a wheelchair. So while I wouldn’t get as much real use out of my pair as many, I would wear them proudly and in memory of my long-hiking days!

Len

I would wear the Wolverine 1000 Mile boots most of the time which means walking to pick up my child, walking around work, to/from/in stores, walking the dog, family walks, to church, to/from the car (as needed), walking when travelling locally, domestically, and internationally, when out taking pictures, when visiting my dad…Man this is going to be a long list so maybe a better topic would be where I wouldn’t walk in the boots.
I wouldn’t wear them in the shower or too much in bed ;-) While the boots were on the newer side, I wouldn’t wear them in mud, snowshoeing, running long distances, on the beach, while doing yard work, while crawling around under car while doing maintenance, or wear them inside our house (house rules). Yep, this list is pretty limited compared to where I would wear the boots and will become even smaller as time goes on.

Living in Northern Nevada there are plenty of hiking and walking places to wear the boots in, not to mention the five acres at home and when I start college wearing them would also make quite the statement.

Best of luck,
Joshua

Where would I walk in my pair of Wolverine 1000 Mile boots? Well, I cannot answer that, simply because it would not be I wearing the boots, but rather the boots me. They would be the one’s deciding where I shall go, mapping out the directions, and choosing the best places to trod. Yes, I think I will simply be along for the ride, up to a Moroccan bazaar, or downtown to the Grocery store; trekking up the peaks of the Matterhorn, or rambling down the hill to my local Post Office.

Only when she needs a good shining up or have a weathered sole re-cobbled, only then I should think I will have a say. But it certainly wouldn’t disappoint me in the least. No sir, ‘cause life is one long trip, which can either be an endless stopover at desolate bus depot or a novel adventure into the wild and vast expanses of this blue marble. It’s yours for the choosing. Hopefully, you will choose the latter, but the only way you’ll ever get through it is with a resolute head, a compass that points in all directions, and last but not least, a good and faithful old sturdy pair of boots. (Preferably Wolverine 1000 Mile ;) )

I would simply head north.

I would hike around Starved Rock State Park near my hometown.

I would hike to Alaska. Living in Rochester, NY I don’t get to experience the outdoors like I used to. I would love to visit Alaska during the spring. Do a little hunting and fishing. I’d be in heaven.

I’d walk down the aisle in them. The lovely woman I’m marrying was just commenting on a pair of these yesterday.

Walking through the woods with my new camera trying to learn nature photography would be great in these boots! More likely, I would be walking through the grocery store aisles getting dinner ingredients and just thinking about better journeys….

I’d walk my 1000 miles around the Scout Reservation I work at in the summer. I have to walk all around the specific camp I work at for part of my job (to make sure everything is in good shape) and I’d take all the trails to the beautiful mountain views of the lake.

These would make some nice fancy boots. I’d walk in these to weddings and all other kinds of formal occasions, and maybe show a little more variety than cap toe Oxfords.

I would like to take these boots to south Texas when I am hunting game. I am also interested experiencing the world in these boots as I am planning on going back to Europe this summer.

I’d wear them pretty much everywhere; isn’t that the point of thousand mile boots?

I am headed out in January for 10 months in New Zealand and since we are limited on what we can take along, I would make these my work/hiking/play boots. As for hiking in NZ, they would go all over NZ south Island. After that, I would use them all over Wyoming, when I return – mostly in the Snowy Range and Medicine Bow forest.

I would follow in the footsteps, literally, of the great John Muir and take a walking trip across the nation, south of the border, and hopefully end up in Tierra Del Fuego.

I would totally wear those 1000 miles through the woods hiking with my wife. As well as the parks in our city.

I would wear the 1,000 miles boots as I manfully stride through the manly world of global corporate leadership. I would also while thus beshod and beladen with carbine and cartridge stalk the wily snipe and snark. Finally, when my foot finds itself so manly and manfully enclosed from its manful heel to its many toe, I would manfully and manly with my bestest little girl to the light fantastic twirl and to the big band beat swirl. In short, with these manly shoes on my feet, I would look ever so manful and neat as I live life complete and with manliness replete.

I want these boots to free myself from the daily grind and hike in the mountains with my pooch Moose by my side.

I would walk into every roadside diner, down every sidewalk, and through every state park I visit on my cross-country motorcycle trip next summer.

Im a contractor that travels to all corners of the main land US and always has chances to travel around the world. I’ll wear that 1000 mile boot so much they’ll rename it the million mile boot.

I’m a big fan of hiking up mountains here in Colorado. I have a pair of wolverine work boots already and they’re quite comfy. Finding nice fitting hiking footwear at places like REI has proved quite difficult. If these boots were mine I would hike up many a mountain in them. I would then polish them off and wear them downtown, because they are that nice.

I work in a manufacturing plant as an engineer. In that position, I not only have to go out into the plant for both lines over 1000 yards long a piece and wear appropriate footwear daily. Also, have to run meetins in a more corporate setting where dressing appropriately and not like a schmuck is a must. The wolverine boot provides both functionality and aesthitic appeal.

When I finish college in a year I plan on taking a backpacking trip. Although no route is definite yet, I am thinking of beginning the journey by leaving my home town of Lincoln NE and heading west toward San Diego. From there I want to head south.

I am a petroleum landman and, as a result, spend a fair amount of time in county courthouses, law offices and family farms. I need a pair of boots that’ll not only wear well on the courthouse steps, but stand up to a tromp through someone’s back forty as well. The Wolverine 1000 exemplifies classic style in addition to practical utility.

I’d wear them to work.

My boyfriend of 8 years has been looking for a good boot as long as we’ve been together. He’s lived in rough country, worked hard, been across the US and back…but his next big step is to use his civil engineering degree to change people’s lives around the world, for the better. He doesn’t know I’m entering this, but if I win I know he’ll get a lifetime of wear out of them (and look good, to boot).

If I won the Wolverine 1,000 Mile Boots, I would walk through the inner workings of the oldest commercial nuclear power plant in the country. I would pump out 650 Megawatts of carbon free energy 24 hours a day, 365 days a year knowing that my feet carried me in rugged, manly style.

I would put them on and walk just to be the man that would walk 1000 miles just to fall down at your door.