Customer Reviews Merrell Moab 2 GTX

I really wanted to love these but they just didn't work for me. The ankle rubs me in the wrong place and felt like it was going to rub right through to my Achilles. At the end of my short 1.5 mile hike I had more dirt in these than I did when wearing Nike's on the same hike.

These are cute to look at and I have had compliments on these boots. But, I wear them for work and they have worn out in a Very short period of time. My feet were starting to hurt daily wearing these. This was a lot of money to spend for boots that hurt me so quickly. Ordered a different pair of boots and throwing these in the trash.

Sexist shoes? Still? Man... I wanted to like this brand but I am done. I had a pair of their hiking boots years ago that took some time to break in. Back then I had read that they had some special gender specific footbed technology. I bought this pair as I needed something quickly so didn't shop around too much but they never fit right and I am not breaking them in this go-round. I just got a different pair that looks amazingly similar by E.B. so I tried them both on to see what the deal is and wouldn't you know it the stupid footbed with the awkward support just throws me all out of alignment. I did a google deep dive and sure enough the footbed still has a gender engineered midsole. The theory is that women's wider hips or "Q angle" from knee to hip cause them to pronate at the knees... which means turn outward. I can't even picture that. Merrell shoes have awkward midsoles that make my legs feel all awkward where before they felt and functioned just fine. The Q angle theory is not true and has been found to not be true in research. Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution did not give women inferiorly angled legs that this shoe company is going to fix. I like the tech spec stuff they put into their thoughtfully designed shoes, though I've also found that certain features just don't come in women's versions... I'm done. Done, done.