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“On our way through New Mexico in 1972, Dr Neel Glass met up with us to introduce us to his exciting new product: Easyboots.
'Boy could we have used something like this on the trails up South America,' I said, and told him of how, when Pampero injured one hind foot, we had strapped on oval shaped sardine cans to protect his foot. One sardine can would last two or three hours and we kept this up for almost a month. That was a lot of sardine cans!
We found use for the Easyboot soon enough. The buckskin horse who had just acquired turned out to be on the proud side, got himself into a barbed wire fence and made an ugly slash straight across the cannon. He wasn't lame from the injury, but shoeing him would be out of the question for a long time to come. With Easyboots, we were able to keep on traveling.
Crossing the Wyoming Jackass Pass was a good example of how we used the boots to go places not fit for horses. We slipped on the boots to get across the granite ledges and the horses did a lot better than we did walking in our slick soled boots! On our way up through Canada in the early spring, we crossed many rain swolen rivers. With Easyboots, the horses had much better traction on river bottom boulders than they had crossing rivers in the southern Andes.
Easyboots stayed with us for many years after our ride ended and we settled on a wilderness ranch in Northern British Columbia. We acquired more horses. Work on the homestead was never ending. Shoeing horses wasn't something we needed to do on a regular basis now; when we went for a long ride over hard ground, we'd Easyboot them and go. I can't remember the exact date, but I know it was twenty years before we said goodbye to the last of the original Easyboots. They certainly lived up to our test!"
-Elly and Nathan Foote
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