TheLostGlobe

I’ve had my Mt Peaks for about a year now so I think I can give a fair review of them.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get the XT GTX version which I think would have been better simply because of the different leather used.

My Mt Peaks were comfortable even brand new not that it took all that long to break them in anyway, when I tried them on in the store I had a rather large blister at the time and I could not feel it at all. The leather is well waterproofed and dries surprisingly quickly, although I haven’t used them in too much wet weather the gusseted tongue does and excellent job of keeping the water out while the lining also does a good job of keeping your sweaty feet dry. They give excellent support tight or loosely worn and have already saved my weak ankles countless times. They are built tough and even on the hardest terrain I’ve put them to test on (large collapsed dolerite columns), they came out of the bashing they received with hardly a scratch. I have never had a blister using these boots. So it has been all good news so far.

My one complaint is cushioning in the sole to me it appears to be non-existent and the sole is very hard which means after 3-4 hours walking I do get quite sore on the soles of my feet especially my “Big Toe”, even after taking the sole inserts out of my very comfortable Keen Taos and putting them in on top of the original soles it is still not a huge improvement. I haven’t heard anyone else complain of this so it might just be me the newer version of the boots may have improved it too, I’m sure once I find a good insert these boots will be perfect.
Recommended? Yes, but go for the XT GTX version, every time I see them in the shop I had wish they had been available and I know regret not trying out a similar boot by Garmont, their Dakota which looks just as good to me, probably better because it is not quite as bulky.

P.S - If the pictures don’t look they are in the right place, sorry. I’m having terrible trouble with them and I’m beginning to think it is a theme related problem, the uselessness of the wordpress Visual editor doesn’t make it any easier. If it try to center or right align and images lately they are all still on the left when I Publish/Preview. Something to work on. This one doesn’t seem to bad on the site but in feed readers, who knows.

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