@mod7rem Darn Tough socks, probably 15 years now of using them exclusively- shorter ones for trail runners, longer ones with boots.
I'll be doing the same thing on my upcoming sheep hunt, light trail runners for fording streams/camp shoes, boots for everything else. With a 60# pack and lots of steep rocky stuff, boots are the only way to go- add in lots of sidehilling and then it becomes a no brainer. I'm in trail runners ~ 9 months out of the year, but the three months that coincide with big game hunting, it's boots
