It actually breathes! Hehe - In fact maybe a little too well, my feet get a little chilled in the Keen Arcata! Sorry Keen but while Keen Shoe Footwear has one of the best shoe-line offerings in the present day shoe industry and having some of the most comfortable insoles ever known to human-kind, breathing and light-weight in overall basic formatted structure, is well, not exactly one of Keen's strong points, BUT, Hey, Guess what! - The Keen Arcata brings it home closer than it's ever been IMHO!!

First of all, comfort! This model without a doubt is one of the most comfortable Keen models I have slid on and the most comfortable in that Pinky Toe area that many of us seek! While many reviewers have noted the Arcata as being on the narrow side, I have to disagree, at least one from being on the average to a bit narrow in width but yet, seeking that width in the mid-section of the mid-foot area, in which is darn hard to find these days in shoe manufacturer structure. It seems that many a shoe manufacturer has abandoned the old pointed toe structured format of the past and taken on foot form of the actual human anatomy, rounding the toe area, wedging the heel but yet abandoning the mid-section area known as a clown shoe overall look, the Keen Arcata on the other hand seems to hold the forgotten attributes and looking good in the overall end scheme of things!

Unlike the lower-end Keen models in the line-up the Arcata lives up to Keen reputation IMHO. Nice thick imbedded insole with no sharp design side upswings in the insole or mid-sole to aggravate problem feet, no toe design upswing and a ground level heel format giving the overall model shoe format a much sleek low-to-the-ground design appeasing the shoe guru's and masters alike in the overall answers in which they all ask... Hehe - Yes, the Arcata has allot of positive attributes in its overall designed format, as far as I'm concerned anyways!

Weight wise, the Keen Arcata falls under the 15 oz. mark in the size 12 tested and consist of top shelf material in its overall makeup without any assembly line stitching hiccup I could find in its overall end-line product offering.

Style Appeal?  I leave that entirely up to the eye of the beholder, I will say, I would personally like to see this format applied in a many of an upper model formatted style structure, thus appealing to a wider market level on all ground floor levels, but with that, I won't take off my Arcata's at the moment for anyone and personally I think that Keen has really, maybe not really knowing, seen the future, of at least many of us with a Keen eye on design, comfort and overall chill, with the model Arcata by one of the fastest growing shoe industry manufacturer leaders within the industry, simply known as Keen!