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Brain is blank. What's that product that's good when you've developed a blister on a long climb?
Available in Boots, but name escapes me! Flying tomorrow ....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Compeed
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Zero_G, thank you! Brain clearly going into meltdown.
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on a related topic, I always like to carry a roll of micropore tape. It is smooth and doesn't stick to your socks. Even with compeed it is sometimes helpful to wind some tape around your foot and over the plaster to keep it in place / reduce friction
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| zammo wrote: |
Brain is blank. What's that product that's good when you've developed a blister on a long climb
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If you're well-hard it's called.....
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..... Duct Tape 
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I often get blisters on the outsides of my feet on longer tours, but sticking ducktape on before the tour is normally enough to prevent them. Apparnetly pop socks underneath your ski socks work too.
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@clarky999, @geoffers, Duct Tape? No way am I as hard as you old mountain goats.
Not a really long tour, but expect to be doing multiple laps on the last 1/3 so that repeated "loosed, schlep, tighten, ski" seems to lead to sore patches so the Compeed can be helpful.
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I used to suffer from blisters really bad, so much so that if I had a weeks touring coming up I used to go up on the South Downs a month prior in my ski touring boots to hike up and down to get a blister do that by the time I went touring the area would be hard scaly skin.
I too have tried silk socks under woolen socks and that did not work.
I do find the warmer the temps and the sweatier the feet the more liable I am to blister.
So here is the absolute fix for a blister, though does depend on how soon you can get to it and what state it is in!
The ideal situation is that you finish the day and the blister you have has not broken, and the skin is still in tact with the globule of liquid below the skin.
Then if you have a needle, go in to the healthy skin about 2-3mm inserting the needle so that it comes up into the blister. Take the needle out and then the liquid will come out of the hole made by the needle.
The strategy here is not to break the skin that is part of the blister. You will then find that this skin will bond back to the foot far better.
Dry the foot well and keep in the open air. The a good half hour prior to going to bed put the compeed on and make sure it is bonded well.
So by the morning you have a compeed that is well and truly stuck to you, you should then be able to carry on.
If you feel a bliser coming whilst hiking / touring and you think it might well be getting to a serious stage, then try and do the above if you're able to and again try and make sure the foot is really dry before applying the compeed.
If the blister has burst then you're fecked, talcom powder will help dry it but does depend how deep etc it gets.
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Wed 14-01-15 17:43; edited 1 time in total
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If you feel a bliser coming whilst hiking / touring and you think it might well be getting to a serious stage, then try and do the above if you're able to and again try and make sure the foot is really dry before applying the compeed.
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Boring but the best advice is to stop and compeed/strap up as soon as you feel a hot spot - don't wait for a blister. Difficult if you are all excited about getting on but you'll have plenty of time to regret it later!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| zammo wrote: |
@clarky999, @geoffers, Duct Tape? No way am I as hard as you old mountain goats.
Not a really long tour, but expect to be doing multiple laps on the last 1/3 so that repeated "loosed, schlep, tighten, ski" seems to lead to sore patches so the Compeed can be helpful. |
Haha I meant before you get the blister - before the tour even starts.
Not keen on ducktape direclty on a blister myself!
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@Spike107 Absolutely. Zinc Oxide tape in clean dry feet as a preventative. Completely covered, even between toes, prevention is better than any cure. As said, stays on for days if necessary and will not come off in shower, leave it on until you get home.
If you do not prep properly and get a blister, and for the short term to get you home, take the skin off the blister, wash it with iodine (it will sting like hell for a few seconds), then cover with zinc oxide.
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You know it makes sense.
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Letting wounds and broken blisters dry out is an old wives tale. Flesh needs to be kept sterile and moist (so sealed with a dressing) in order to produce new cells and heal.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Yup, I had a bad one from trying for a speedy tour time; with compeeds (almost like a hydrocolloid style dressing) applied every three days it is almost healed 11 days later. Sterile and moist is the way, if you have ever had an infected wound treated that will be what they will do. Even if they throw maggots in 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Did short tour yesterday about 2 hours.Got blisters just below ankles on both feet.Blamed boots but having read this topic I start to think it is common.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Next week I'll be venturing out on skins for the first time. Never realised that blisters were a common problem! What's the most common spot on the foot for blisters when touring?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I always get them on the inside of my heels. For short tours a pair of pop socks under the touring socks is fine. For over an hour some have had amazing success with decent ski compression socks.
I found that taping up my weak points with white bandage tape (or zinc oxide) and then using liner socks under touring socks works fine. The only reason I got the blisters last time was that I was on a heavy free ride set up (approx 6 kgs per foot) and was pushing to break a 2 hr time so was really going for it. I was on piste though lol.
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Compeed also do a chap stick style thing that reduces friction on your skin. Might prevent the plasters from sticking though.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Scarpa, yep, the stick is basically silicon, so very slippery. Def can't be used in conjunction with the plasters.
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Heels are a favourite but toes where nails rub are another as EU can be pretty free to move about in ski boots. Chopping the little bugs down is usually a good move. I tend to find as long as I have well fitting boots I don't get much in the way of blisters.
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| Zero_G wrote: |
| Scarpa, yep, the stick is basically silicon, so very slippery. Def can't be used in conjunction with the plasters. |
Bet it will be good along with Zardoz for helping the inner ski boot slide into the shell too (my Redsters need the inner entering and exiting on the foot).
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Scarpa, sweet baby cheeses, that's some blister, mister 
The only time I got bad blisters was when I hired B3 boots for ice climbing and we slogged across a glacier for 2 hrs beforehand. It was a painful day.
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Pah! Call that a blister? Here's Mrs A before she got here new boots:
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@altis, Wow, that is some blister
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+1 for using zinc tape for prevention and all those who comment on it above.
Used it before for variety of bodily areas and activities including the odd yomp around pictureques army exercise areas.
Prevention definitely better than treatment.
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You know it makes sense.
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| clarky999 wrote: |
| I often get blisters on the outsides of my feet on longer tours, but sticking ducktape on before the tour is normally enough to prevent them. Apparnetly pop socks underneath your ski socks work too. |
When I played football I used to tape up my big toes and base of my foot (On the ball joint) with Masking tape before a game. The tape on the toes also helps to prevent rippin toenails off.
I am lucky my ripped off toenails have grown back in many times (unusual).
All it does is allow the thing rubbing against you from doing it and making you swell up.
PS my mate Dougie ( sorry, Professor Dougie  ) developed compeed, if it is the Johnson and Johnson developed kit.
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