UPDATE:  After having worn these boots to work and on my lunch hour walks, I wore them on a 9-mile RT hike with 2,000' elevation gain (and loss).  Ouch! About halfway in, the heel of one foot started hurting.  I first rearranged my sock, later stopped again and applied bandaids, but I got a nasty blister anyway, probably the worst in my life.  However, the other foot was fine.  I will keep these for work shoes but Oh Darn, back to the search for the ever-elusive perfect hiking boot.

MY ORIGINAL REVIEW: I liked the first pair so well, I bought a second.  They are a good deal at the discounted price, but these are not a heavy-duty hiking boot and do not have the fit or feel of a more expensive boot.  I use them for work where the floors are cold and hard and I am on my feet most of the day.  I hope to also use them for some hiking but the season isn't here yet.

I talk a brisk walk on my lunch break every day, about 1.5 miles, and they work fine for that.  They have never rubbed me or created a blister.  There is one annoying thing about these boots, and that's that the soles pick up pebbles on my walk and I have to remove them by hand or else I get a grinding sensation as I walk on the hard floors of my workplace.  I have worn many different hiking boots and shoes to work and for my walks over 7 years, and I have never had to do this before.  My walk is largely on an old frontage road so there is gravel on deteriorating blacktop.