I had never heard of this stuff before, the Blist-O-Ban bandages you referred to. I noticed that they come from the people that brought us the vernerable SAM Splint, so I was interested, but, never saw them in stores. Today, I picked up a small hiking FAK for my boy's backpack, and they include a Blist-O-Ban bandage, as well as traditional moleskin.

Haven't used it yet, but, the technology looks promising. I read some of the info on the SAM Medical Products web site you had in your note.

Heck, if it's good enough for Adventure Medical Kits to put in their products, it's worth checking out. I agree with the other folks that said it's much better to work at avoiding the blisters in the first place. We spend a lot of time talking to our young skulls full of mush before every hiking trip, but, invariably, one of them didn't wear liners, or decent socks, or had poor fitting boots... so we need to break out the moleskin. Maybe now we'll have another thing for the bag of tricks.