No more Lowa Hiking boots for me. A month wearing these boots visiting job sites and climbing water towers, for some reason the soles starts splitting. The materials fell apart like crusty old birthday cake. I started using shoe glue trying to repair the side along the toes. Then the hills on both boots started making squishy noises. Also made a messy trail of rubber material like crumbs in one of the site I visited. I was very disappointed. The leather held and still looks brand new, but the soles are pretty much gone. Unless a cobbler can replace the soles for less than $20 these junk are going in to the trash. What lemons.