I really wanted to love this pants, and the prAna Halle pants.  I bought these for an upcoming backpacking trip in New Mexico.  The Sage pants, as well as the Halle pants, are very fitted in the butt / thigh area, but then are straight legs all the way to the bottom.  This resulted in a REALLY baggy boot area, so much so that I could almost pull the pant legs over my size 8 boots while keeping them flat on the ground.  Seems like something I would kick/trip over while hiking.  I also bought these and the Halle with the intention of rolling the pant legs up, but found they are way to baggy to do that well.  The loops in the pants are also quite low, where you'd only roll them up slightly past your boots.  I'd prefer to roll them up to just below my knees, and to do that I would have the straps dangling, and a ton of material around my knees.  Lastly, I found that the zipper / shorts area was a little too bulky and rigid, and I thought that would bother my thighs while hiking.  I'm returning these and continuing my search for versitle and comfy pants.  My next stop is REI's Sahara pants or TNF's convertible pants.

If the legs were just slightly tapered, and the zipper not as noticible, these seem like they would be other wise very comfy pants.  Unlike the Halle pants, these have useful cargo pockets.  The normal pockets are too small to be useful.  I can't imagine anything that would fit in those.  Sage pants have the useable cargo pockets, but the Halle pants don't.