How to Properly Fit Hiking Boots 

I honestly think this is the best review of it's kind. Thanks for the info.

That’s been so helpful - thank you! 😀

So simple yet so effective. If I was a sportswear store manager, that video would be a must to my new employees training!

Thank you so much for the great details and in depth explanations!

Thank you for taking the time to make this. Very helpful

Awesome tips and info. Many thanks!

Really helpful video! Thank you

Excellent advice provided here.

Super useful video, makes everything very clear. Thank you!

Thank you for the informative video. The best one I found so far.

Excellent presentation, all the points I needed to hear about to get the right fit. Thank you.

wow I learned so much thank you. you're the best!

Solid info and super-useful and concise explanations - thank you!

Thankyou for sharing your experience

I appreciate this video. Solves my exact set of concerns. Thank you.

Very informative. Thank you.

Incredibly helpful and thoroughly explained! Thanks so much!

Great advice. Glad I watched this before boot shopping tomorrow

Brilliant video .....advice is straight to point....no waffle.....superb detail...facts, practical...and genuinely helpful to people....

Thanks man! Great, succinct video.

Thank you a great informative video. Already using your advice as I have just brought a pair of new boots and I will wear them around the house before venturing outside in them. Ted

Probably the best video on this topic.Thank You.

This is an actual good fitting video. Great work explaning this prosess. Thanks!

Very informative video. Thank you for sharing.

Very chill guy, explaining basic shoe fitment to us with a lively attitude. If there were more school teachers like him, there wouldn't be a single student with a grade below a B-.

This is very educational video. Thank you!

Thanks for the tips! Fit is so dang important. A well fitting boot changes everything.

Just absolutely excellent video, as so many others have shared.

Very helpful. Thank you.

A very well presented video. Thanks !

Excellent advises ! Merrell and Salomon fits perfect for me

An awesome video, well explained, genuine, not here just to sell or promote a product. Good on you, Chaar👍 Greetings from New Zealand!

This is so helpful!

Very very helpful. Thank you

Thank you! 🙏🤩 Awesome video 👏👏 Of all the videos I saw on how to choose the appropriate hiking boots, this is the most informative and educational video of them all!! I saved it and shared it with my trail buddies! #Newbie🥾🥾🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

Great information for any shoe

really informative! I just learned that my outlet Mammut shoes that I was woried I bought too big are actually a perfect fit! (got that thumb width on the insole)

Great review - thanks !

I tired taking the insole out method thank you so much!

this was awesome! thanks man

Solid information. Thanks

super useful, thank you!!!

Great video, thank you!

Awesome information. Thanks! I have the socks and for comfort around the home wear one half size larger shoes. Now speculating I might want to stay one half size larger to accomodate the thicker socks.

Great review. I have to use toe socks and/or toe sock liner with darn tough sock.

Awesome thanks so much. I've been having issues with a new pair beginner hiker here. Thanks for touching on width too.

Excellent! Intelligent, knowledgeable, well articulated presentation, and a pleasure to watch and listen to. One of the most helpful videos I've seen. Many thanks from me and my feet.

Great content. Thank you.

Great video. Thanks!

I know this is a few years old now but this is the most informative video for boots I’ve ever seen 👏🏻👏🏻 thank you for this, some brilliant advice here and you’ve helped me big time.

Very clear video, thanks for all the information!

Thanks. I enjoyed the video

Perfectly explained. Nobody is gonna argue with this video.

Thanks so much! Very informative and super happy with my fit.

Great informative video!

This is a fantastic video! How did I not know these things?

Thanks - some great ideas

Probably the best fitting advice I've heard about any shoe-fitting, let alone hiking boots - cheers for the detail!

Great video, cheers!

Fabulous. I wear Smartwool merino socks - no blister in 48 months.

Really helpful video!

Great video with concise practical tips ... made a huge difference when trying multiple boots on! Thanks!

learned a lot, thanks

The best boot fitting tutorial on RU-vid, well done lad 👌 Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

Nice and compact. Thanks.

This is a great video !

Awesome video. Fitment of any boot is the key to not having problems with pain blisters or damaged feet. Asp Mountain boots with stiff soles. Comfort and perfect fit is just as important as Quality of the bands materials.

I’ve watched many videos to learn how i choose my right boot size Spicialy for hiking. But honestly you are the best. Thank you very much and I really Appreciated.

Strolled through all of RU-vid and I must say, this video is THE best out there regarding the fit of hiking boots!

Very useful. Thanks

Thak you for the video sir!

Really really useful 👏

Great, instructive video. Better than others with some random guy’s opinion!😀

Super helpful!

New hiker here, haven't even bought proper boots yet so I wanted to find out all I could about what to look for when buying a pair - this video is fantastic. Thanks!

Good video. Thanks!

The width lining up bit was such a "well duh" moment but I absolutely needed to hear it, lol! Thank you for going over those fine and fiddly details! Great, concise video!

A great video!!!

Great video!

Just get Scarpa. 40 yrs and these boots are just awesome.

That's absolutely the best hiking boot fitting guide there is! Thanks!

Well done!

Thank you for this video! I am relieved to find out that I chose the correct fitment for my new Keen boots. This is my first pair of hiking boots but not my first pair of boots in general. I was a little worried I may have bought half a size too big, but I knew after wearing them for a while that they feel pretty awesome even though I had some room left in front of my toes. I didn't realize before this that a little extra room is actually what you want.

Yo that super helpful! You just saved me 200 bucks having to return my 2nd order. I have a ton of boots, but I always get “new boot doubt”. Thanks again. Also, darn toughs are the way to go man. Tried and true for me. I wear them to hunt, hike, and I climb radio towers all year long. Worth it.

A good insole to replace the insole in a boot is the Spenco Full-Lenth Orthodotic. This was recommended to me by a podiatrist. It balances your foot if you have pronation. Also it protects the foot from puncture.

I am going to up one on the socks, get two pairs. One thin liner, one medium or thicker insulation / cushining sock. This is the best wayto avoid blisters, socks rubbing against each other rather than against your skin. Where I am from a hunter trick is to wear thin womans nylon socks as a liner. This is even used at polar expeditions, just to avoid that skin rub. The outher sock is for warmth or comfort.

That display rack of socks... I worked at a place called Paper Box and Specialty in Sheboygan, WI. Our products were folding cartons and display boxes. We made products for that Wigwam company at 5:28, does that bring back memories.

Excellent

This is really the best helpful video to find the perfect fit. It helped me a lot to choose the right size between two different sizes of new Salomon quest 4 gtx boots. I thought first EU 44 is right for me, but after your video it turned out that EU 44 2/3 is the perfect size. Thanks a lot for your great Video and eplanation.

I’m a size 10.5 in most if not all shoes. Hiking boots however, I usually buy .5 larger in hiking boots and a full size larger in European made hiking boots/Mountaineering Boots

Delighted i came across ths video,. Im actually going looking for hiking boots this weekend as we are hiking Ireland highest mountain in July and I don't think my current boots will be suitable for this so was hoping to upgrade to more suitable boots this weekend, will def take all these tips in mind and I'll also invest in a proper pair of socks and insoles.

Awesome video till date @2022

EXCELLENT .

When you use a brannock device measure for your arch!! Because the support it so much more pronounced in hikers it’s more important to make sure your foot is getting the proper support. It’ll usually fit exactly how you want it and how you explained in the video lol (space up front in the toe box for your toes to splay out and it’ll give your toes room that when you’re walking down a steeper hill that they aren’t hitting the end) the other thing is lacing is very important in securing the foot back but one of the biggest things to make sure your foot isn’t sliding forward is making sure your arch is in the right spot. If it’s to far back then it’ll be hitting your heal which would throw the alignment of your body off. If it’s a good fitting arch it’ll create a locking feature that secures your foot not allowing it to slide forward! ALWAYS MAKE SURE THE BALL OF YOUR FOOT IS SITTING AT THE WIDEST PART OF THE BOOT!! So many customers don’t understand this and refuse help. Great video you explained it perfectly

Mole tape skin, maybe moisturizer every hour, change socks often. Idk if lotion would work but blisters are from high friction so lotion and mile tape to fight that. For work boots normally an inch of stra space is a must but idk if that's best for hiking... You could say hiking is completely different but I could spend 10 hours walking through a construction site with hills, debre, mud, water, tiny ankle roll rocks. Who wears steel toe on trail?

Thank You Mister Shoe.

V help full.

When we went to Cabela’s for our new hiking boots they didn’t offer any suggestions. Very disappointing. I did buy a good pair of Merino wool hike/trek socks and a pair of Keens. Definitely will wear them to the grocery store and hopefully get them wet to form to my foot. Thank you!

Happy to find out on my new pair of hiking boots I picked the correct size. I'd been wearing a pair of the higher end US Army military boots for the past 6 years and they're starting to get worn out. I needed the taller boots at the time that the Army surplus kind afforded me for being in a heavy timber rattlesnake and copperhead area. Now I've decided to try a mid pair between boots and low tops hikers.

Buying a pair of hiking boots and I find this information very helpful. Thank you for a very informative presentation. And the last comments regarding socks was good to know. If not for that, I would be using the "cotton is rotten" variety. I appreciate your post.