55 years on, who knew these guys were still in business? (Updated)
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I was on Amazon’s front page just now and saw that someone is still selling Moon Boots, a pair of which I bought at Outdoor Traders in 1970. I don’t recall what I paid for them, but nothing was cheap at “Indoor Raiders”, so I probably paid more than $29.92, which, according to the handy inflation calculator provided by our government, would have been the equivalent of $240 today. My guess is that I paid at least $50 back then. So they’re quite the bargain today!
I don’t intend to buy a new pair because as I recall, although they were very, light, and incredibly warm, they were also incredibly clunky. But a fun trip down Memory Lane, for me — they rest of yoiu can just suffer this irrelevancy.
UPDATE
Susie was prowling through the Fountain Boyz Himalayan Expedition archival album, and has sent along this picture she found of me in my Moon Boots near the summit of Mt. Everest. Thanks, Susie — of all the mementoes awarded me for that conquest, the boots and snowshoes given me by Tenzing were my favorite, and the ones I was most proud of.
