Need to Fix Merrell Tawas

[Robert Justice]

Greetings Everyone,

In January I'm going to Big Bend with a couple of friends and I'm thinking about foot wear. Right now I have a pair of Merrell Tawas which I bought not long before a trip to the Gila Wilderness. They were extremely comfortable except for the fact that the hard rubber that cups my heel on the outside really digs into the back of my ankle!

I can't afford to buy a new pair of shoes to hike in before January 6th, and I don't have anything else near suitable to wear for this expedition. The only solution I can come up with is that I must fix them. I have never done this before… I thought about:

A. Taking a pair of pliers and working that rubber back and forth until it bends easily.

B. Cutting some of the hard rubber off of the shoe.

Below are pictures of this dilemma. Has anyone come across a situation like this before? Or does anyone have suggestions on what I should do! I do have big ankles so I'm sure that is a lot of the issue.

All feedback is greatly appreciated!

-Rob

[Tom Howard]

Hi Rob,
A quick fix to your problem. If you have a good shoe repair shop or an old time shoe store. They will have a tool called
a Roll ease and it will actually roll out that problem,in just afew minutes.
I have a Childrens Shie store and we roll out kids shoes all the time
Tom

[Robert Justice]

Thanks Tom, I'm going to go that route! It sure beats trying to fix it myself and messing it up!

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