I have a dropcloth on the ground, just set my boots on it. Grew up in the desert, shake my boots out before putting them on. Hanging them from the ridgeline is no go, don't have laces. I also carry "camp shoes", they go on the dropcloth as well, if I remember to get them out of the panniers. Skeeter hell prevented me from doing so the last night of hammocking this most recent trip.