About this product
Gaiters solve a small problem that ruins a day. Walk through wet grass at dawn in the Usambaras and your socks are soaked before the sun is properly up. Cross a muddy stretch and it goes over the boot top. Walk through dry grass and you spend the evening picking seeds out of your laces. A pair of these stops all of it at the knee.
These are the straightforward version – waterproof fabric, black, adjustable straps and buckles, one size that fits most adults. No membrane specification and no camouflage pattern, and consequently a price that makes them easy to own and easy to keep permanently in a daypack rather than deciding each time whether to bring them.
They fit over your trouser leg and over the boot top, so nothing can get in between, and the straps let you tighten them to your own calf and boot rather than hoping. They pack down small and weigh very little, which is the real test of whether a piece of kit like this gets used: the ones you notice carrying are the ones you leave behind.
They suit hiking and trekking anywhere in Tanzania, wet-season walking, farm and fieldwork, fishing along overgrown banks, and anyone whose walking involves grass taller than their boots. For heavy sustained rain and long days in wet conditions, our Naturehike gaiters with a 10,000 mm rating are the step up.
Leg Gaiters