text: This isn't going to be best review because I wore these things for a total of 4 hours.  That is not long enough to really tell if they're comfortable, what kind of terrain they can take, how long they last, etc.  (In general, Amazon reviews suffer from this problem because Amazon asks for reviews soon after your product arrives, but some products take 2–3 months to really get to know.)  This pair of shoes get a review after those four hours, though, because one of the suede (I had to go back to the product description to see just what they were made of) eyelets holding the laces broke during only the second time I tried to tie them.  I guess it was too much pressure or something.  It snapped right in the middle of the piece of suede, not on a seam or some place you'd expect something like that to happen.  Anyway, while it doesn't render the shoe totally useless, it's close.  Hiking shoes are ones I like to have fit snugly and firmly, especially up by my ankle.  It might just be this pair, and others will have better luck, but I'm not going to test my luck.  I'll be buying something else for shoes.