text: The quality control is lacking in these Ahnu hiking shoes.  I really wanted to love these shoes.  So much so, that I bought them several times in the same size and there was always something wrong with the left shoe in each case.  One pair had a left shoe that felt a half size smaller than the right shoe.  Another pair were true to size but had a painful lump in the left arch.  A third pair were sized correctly and had a great feeling arch but the top edge of both heels cinched in and  painfully gouged into my tendons.  They are a beautiful looking shoe, particularly, if you're not a fan of the overstuffed, synthetic athletic shoe look.  But be prepared to gamble on getting a matched pair.