text: I've only owned these for four months.<br /><br />Compliments - They are very comfortable. The comfort level is excellent (which is why i gave it two stars instead of one). I wore these up to 14 hours on a work day, and wore them daily and i never had any foot pain. Waterproofing worked very well (until the entire mesh portion of the boot tore through).<br /><br />Disclaimer - I tried to use these are an Arborist's climbing boot. But there are some areas of the boot that would have failed despite my use for them.<br /><br />Complaint - Be careful with these boots. 1) The soles are not very good quality. I should have known from the start. After purchasing shoes with Vibrams soles for past 5 years no other sole has met their standard. The soles on these have failed after four months. This is one aspect of the shoe that would have worn even if i wasn't using them for climbing. 2) The rubber peeled within two months of use. Now again, some of these issues may not be a problem for others since i used these shoes for climbing trees. But i was hopefully that a shoes made for the intention of being used in the woods would hold up longer. There is no waterproofing left to them since there are so many holes. I'm still wearing them simply because I'm waiting on a new pair of different boots to come in.<br /><br />Between the useless soles and the holes all around the boot after 4 months, i'm pretty disappointed. Even if you weren't using these on a daily basis i'd look elsewhere.