I normally don't have fit and comfort concerns. I have covered lots of miles in jungle boots, some of these boots I altered taking the toe caps out and the sole plate out, old school SFAS alterations. I don't worry about boots to keep my ankles from rolling as most of my boots have had zero ankle support and my summer backpacking shoe is usually nothing more than a trail running shoe.
However, as I grow long in the tooth, I have found my own discomfort niche in boots. This was readily apparent this archery season as I had day after day of rain saturated meadows, and that early transitional rocky mountain snow. Even with gaiters, even with boot seams sealed with silicone, even with repeat applications of snow seal or silicone based waterproofing on the boots I have worn; the boots get wet, get saturated, and leak. I have tried two different models of this unnamed company's boots and they both had a goretex inner liner. Now neither of these boots were Crispi, so why am I writing this. Well as I look at the Crispi Idaho I see a boot with multiple seams and fabric pannels and I wonder how can a boot like that stay waterproof for long. What say those of you who have hunted day after day of rain saturated meadows and moisture soaked transition snow with this boot? Has there been more success with dry feet out there with all leather boots with minimal seams? I'm not trying to slam the Idaho here, I just don't want to have another pair of boots that have me wringing out my socks every night from just normal rocky mountain early season hunting, no swamp hunting here. By the way, I don't have a complaint about my feet getting too hot in boots, if I'm not road marching on pavement in the south CONUS or OCONUS, hot feet are just a foreign concept to me.
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