“So far so good”

“For reference: I wear an 8 in the wm's Garmont sticky cat (I could be 8.5 but like approach shoes that fit close) & 39.5 La sportiva Batura boots. Street shoe size: sometimes an 8, somtimes 8.5. In the Megastars, I'm a 26.0. Had to return the 25.5's. Inner liners are very toasty in 20ºF range. Because I've decided that the 26.0 MegaStars are keepers, I will be getting the liners heat molded by a professional boot fitter. Inner liners have lace holes & boots come w/ laces. These boot shells are super adjustable. All the buckle latches have micro adjusters (just twist). On the ankle buckles, the thing w/ the metal grooves/teeth for latching is held on w/ a nut & bolt & can be moved w/ an Allen wrench if you are much much larger smaller in the calf (or in my case, cankles! yikes). So far I've only used these in alpine bindings thus far (gotta $ave up for Dynafits) & they did just fine. When I fell hard, the rubber sole did not interfere w/ binding release. My previous boots were down hill & it didn't matter if part of my long underwear was tucked in... however, in the megastars, long underwear partially in the boot caused way too much constriction... so I just rolled my long underwear up (or you can buy shortie boot cut ones - never knew it'd make a difference until the megastars). All in all, given the dealflyer discounts, these boots were a **tremendously** great deal. I also read elsewhere that someone was able to skin up & ice climb in these! Haven't tried that yet but they are not much less comfortable than my ice climbing boots. Look fwd to giving it a try. I may have to get an extender bar for my crampons if I do so. Ski to climb? Climb to ski?”