DryGuy Travel Dry DX Boot Dryer and Shoe Dryer Orange Black

This is a convenient travel dryer. I tend to sweat when I ski and I like to dry my boots after each day of skiing. Over the years, I used 3-4 different boot dryers and have two larger size dryers in my closet. While I prefer to use those for drying at home, due to higher air flow, airplane travel imposes constraints on the size and weight of the items that one can take. I bought this dryer specifically for plane trips. It served me well during a week in Colorado in the beginning of January. It is about 2/3 of the size of regular dryer and little over half of the weight. There is a small very low power heater and a fan inside. You can barely hear and feel that it spins and it takes it a while to heat up, but it does. It takes 2-3 hours to dry ski boots. By the end of the drying cycle, the heater and the liners reach temperature of around probably 40 degrees Celcius, which is perfectly safe. The reason why one has to be careful with heating ski boots is because shell, liners, and footbeds become increasingly pliable as the temperature increases. Low temperature drying is the key to avoid unwanted alterations of the fit. The dryer comes with a 120 Volts power adapter with a car-like socket in which the dryer plugs in. This enables one to also use the dryer while driving in a car, it can be plugged into 12 Volts auxilary power outlet. A little trick which I learned is that the connection in the 12 volts socket oftentimes gets loose, so one has to check and make sure that it is completely plugged in and that the red LED on the 12 volts plug is on. There is no other indicator that the unit turned on, it is very quite. The length of the dryer is a little under 19 cm. It fits easily into my size 29.5 boots and I was able to fit it into my son's size 25.0 boots. With smaller boot sizes this dryer may be a problem because instep will make it difficult to slide into the boot. Obviously, it will not fit into kids boots with sizes below 19. It can be very easily and conveniently used to dry street shoes. In fact, this is where one finds it advantageous over the traditional ski boot dryers with long air pipes. Those would just fall down, whereas this one just slides in. The only slight disadvantage (in comparison to boot dryers with fan outside and air pipes) is lower air flow and the fact that air circulates mostly inside of the boot. This, however, does not seem to have any major impact on drying efficiency. It is a very low power dryer, like all ski boot dryers - around 30 watts. As I said, it uses slightly warmed up air and the drying time is several hours. If you thinking about a boot heater - it is not meant to do it. Read more

Navigated myself right into a swamp the other day in my 'hot' boots up to my ankles and got thoroughly soaked as I worked my way out. Took the soles out of my boots, and plugged these two into my goal zero's cig lighter and away they went. They make a peaceful sort of 'white noise' so they didn't keep me up all night as they ran, and pulled almost no power. Like 6-7 watts from the cig lighter which is pretty dang efficient. And while they don't get HOT they get warm if you use them as directed. Don't forget to take the insoles out if you can. The inside was fairly dry within a few hours, at least to the point of not molding obviously. Then within a few hours after that, the outside started to dry. By morning I'd say it was like 80%. You might think this's a bad result, but this's actually a vast improvement over the very real mold situation you're in. Or trying to run them under your foot-heat from your car and wearing out your alternator. Also made sure I rotated my soles around a little bit throughout the evening, night, morning, and they air-dried just fine under my canopy and my boots were ready by breakfast the next morning. They seem pretty robust, and they stayed right-side-up all by themselves. I mean honestly, this's exactly what I've wanted for a long time. I feel a million times better about off-grid boots situations now. I don't know longevity, but I ran these on and off for 12-15 hours or so testing them off a GZ, and seemed fine. They start off quiet, ramp up over like 10 min, then get slightly warm. again just enough so the boots won't mold. very happy with them. I recommend anyone with a battery keep one of these in their bag also. Read more

CLUTCH! I sadly lost the cord to use in a house, but it have used this intermittently for 3 years now. It’s convenient and I live in northern Michigan, so I have used it to warm my ski boots as I drive to the resort I live near (2 miles), I do in-line speed skating races and outdoor rain races are tough, and myself and one of my sons have used this to dry out our skates (custom molded ones cost over $1500), and have had great success with this to help big time, I actually keep this in my vehicle because I can ice skate or roller skate on my lunch breaks, and I use it for getting my skates warmed up from being in my car 🥶 to being able to throw my skates on and have them be a comfortable temperature. I have owned these for over 3 years and used them first after traipsing around Niagara Falls January 2019! This is my first time reviewing them, I’ve used these at a music festival after an extremely wet arrival and having soaked boots, myself and my son used these while getting our breakfast around at camp. They helped so much that we allowed our neighbors to use them as well! I swear by these, and I’m thinking about buying some extra ones so each of my family members has one. They don’t work fast, but they do a thorough job. My son does several outdoor in-line speed skating races, and Duluth is especially cold, wet, and brutal. These help get your boots warm so you don’t start the day with cold feet, and they help to dry them after being soaked for an entire marathon. I can’t rave about these enough! Read more