Been looking for new hiking boots for the last couple of years, just couldn't find any that fit right and couldn't part with my old ones....fresh back from a 4-day backpacking trips with tired feet and old boots busting out at their seams, we stopped in Whitehorse Y.T. to spend the night....Tried these on in a store there and my feet felt right at home !!...Nice wide toe box, padded collar and metal eyelets (not canvas like so many of the new boots).....Try on a pair, I don't think you'll be disappointed !!