“Hiking the Olympic Peninsula”

“I bought these to use on our vacation to the Olympic Peninsula. Others had told me I needed a good pair of waterproof hiking shoes. Well, I just got back from two weeks of hiking the mountains and beaches with these shoes and they were great! They weren't especially broken in when we went (I'd worn them about 10-12 hrs is all) and they were very comfortable on the trails. They are seriously waterproof! The peninsula is a lot of rainforest but my feet never got wet. They kept my feet dry even when fording streams across the beaches or wading thru puddles and mud in the mountains. The only problem I had was with traction. The first time we hit the rocks on the beach to check out the tide pools I slipped down a rock like I was ice skating. The weird thing is that the slide took me into the surf of the ocean and once the tread on the shoes got good and wet they had great traction. I didn't slip at all anymore after that.”