Almost 50 years ago, Dave Page — then a professor of American history at the University of Washington and Western Washington University — was bouldering with his girlfriend on a beach in California.

It’s a familiar tale. Your best hiking boots have started to show signs of wear but you’re not ready to say goodbye. They’ve been with you through thick bog and thin cloud; climbed the highest ...

ELK CITY, Okla. (KFOR) — The old soles wander in on tired feet. “It just depends on how long and hard you wear your boots,” says Ray Eeds. He’s has seen them in all sizes, and in pretty bad shape.

How did this business get started? Ramon Reyes, 45, is repairing soles one shoe at a time at Da Boot Shop, a full-service shoe and boot repair shop he founded in Fayetteville in 1996. “We are a family ...

ROCHESTER — After 104 years of saving Rochester’s soles, the legendary Boston Shoe and Boot Repair is ready to pack it in and close up shop. The mall location was a younger sibling of the original ...

Roman Nektlov opened his small Chelsea storefront in September, but his reputation for salvaging city-street-destroyed soles has already extended far beyond the neighborhood. (He gets regular clients ...

While there are plenty of variations of the lug sole boot, most styles are identified by a signature thick rubber sole, often with indentations that offer traction, so there’s no fear of slipping ...