It has been a while since I was in the market for shoes. I spend a lot of miles on them, we get around 200 inches per year.
One time I did get a pair from Cabela's. They are no longer marketed and were returned broken after one trip and it was cut short with a broken shoe.
You need to pay close attention to the construction of the bindings. The above pair had two 1/8th inch aluminum pop rivets per side. That is what held my foot to the shoe, at least for a couple of hundred yards.
If I was seriously looking at buying a pair of shoes from a catalog, I would look for old catalogs and see if they are still marketing them. If the shoe is no longer in the catalog one should seriously ask, why?
The loss of a shoe can be more than a minor problem.
My shoes are currently Sherpa's. Unfortunately they are no longer made. At the time I got them they still had a good reputation and were making the top of the line shoes.
