Are Felt Shoes The Answer For Walking On Ice?

A viewer, also a fisherman, emailed The News On 6 a possible solution. He uses his felt bottom fishing shoes when it gets icy like this, never slips, not a problem.

Tuesday, December 29th 2009, 5:46 pm

By: News On 6


By Rick Wells, The News On 6

TULSA, OK -- Getting around has been difficult since the snow started falling on Christmas Eve.

In fact, many of our stories recently have focused on solutions to those "getting around" difficulties.

Now and then a viewer will send us an idea we have never heard before.

Coming back from the mailbox can be treacherous, traffic whizzing by, trying to step carefully.

A viewer, also a fisherman, emailed The News On 6 a possible solution. He uses his felt bottom fishing shoes when it gets icy like this, never slips, not a problem.

It works for him, it might work for you.

Off we go, in search of felt bottom shoes,

So you know you have some felt soled boots?

The man behind the camera, Todd Ruffin, said, "I think I do."

Ruffin said he had some shoes like that at his house.

His wife Lisa said she thought they were in a pile of leaves near the porch.

Todd gave me the camera so he could look, pair of tennis shoes, after some more digging, shoes.

"Um, here's one, here's one," Ruffin said.

It is just felt on the bottom.

"Yeah it's just felt on the bottom; you can stand on slippery rocks," Ruffin said.

Maybe an expert would help, D&B Outfitters' Butch Mankin has been selling outdoor equipment for 30 years. I asked him about felt bottom shoes on ice. He said there are two kinds one plain and one with metal studs.

"I'd be skeptical, if I'm gonna go out and walk on the ice it wouldn't be in these it would be this one," Mankin said.

He took the slick soled one outside, rubbed it on the ice and it got slicker and slicker.

Good on rocks and river bottoms not so much on ice maybe.

So, thanks for the suggestion of the felt bottom boots but I think I'll stick to old reliable ice cleats.

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