I've never had New Balance hiking shoes, but when I ran marathons, NEW BALANCE were the ONLY shoes I would get. No other shoes worked for me. I only ran off-road marathons, including Death Valley and Wild Wild West. I'm going to check these out and hopefully I can find them on sale before February hikes :-)

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