The very last thing you want to discover the week you are set to depart on a 100-mile trekking adventure is a hole in your boot. It can take weeks to break in a new boot and blisters will end a trek faster than almost anything else. The only option is to find a cobbler who can replace the sole and/or heel in time for my departure this Saturday. The good news is that I noticed the problem before departing. Kyle and I will be hiking through water, mud and snow as we amble through Patagonia and a leaky boot will be a really serious problem. Borrowing a line from Apollo 13, one of my favorite movies, “Looks like we’ve had our glitch for the mission” and hoping our story does not follow the rest of the script.