User Review: Montrail Hurricane Ridge XCR
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Materials: Synthetic leather and nylon
Use: Chinese woman's foot shrinking machine?
Break-in Period: I'd break my feet first.
Weight: 14 ounces
Price Paid: $76
There's not much to say. I bought a pair of Hurricane Ridge shoes new from an eBay seller, and they arrived in the Montrail box. They looked good. They were my correct shoe size. But then I tried to put them on my feet.
Although I was successful in cramming my feet into my pair of shoes, they were waayyy too pinchy-toed to walk far in. I took the insoles out and tried again. Still much too narrow, and the box said they were "medium" in width. Ha! No way I'm hiking in these.
I have had similar problems with other shoes in Montrail's "velocity" line, but never to this extent. I was able to make my Hardrocks good-wearing shoes by giving them the "freezer treatment" to widen them a fraction of a size. Now they're OK, but they were a little too narrow before. However, there is just no way the Hurricane Ridge shoes can be widened enough to be usable. Not by me, anyway.
This isn't a problem with Montrail's Fusion series. My first really GREAT pair of shoes was a Montrail TRS Comp, which I still have. Why couldn't Montrail just keep a decent width on the Hurricane Ridge? It's a pretty shoe: but it's just too narrow.
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Where to Buy
Buy Online We found the Hurricane Ridge XCR at 7 online stores:
| Store | Product Description | Price |
 Backcountry.com 2 purchase options: | Hurricane Ridge XCR Trail Running Shoe - Men's | $87.47 | Buy Now |
| Hurricane Ridge XCR Trail Running Shoe - Women's | $106.21 | Buy Now |
 Moosejaw 2 purchase options: | Men's Hurricane Ridge XCR Shoe (Spring 2008) | $100.00 | Buy Now |
| Women's Hurricane Ridge XCR Shoe (Spring 2008) | $100.00 | Buy Now |
 Backcountry Outlet | Hurricane Ridge XCR Trail Running Shoe - Men's | $87.47 | Buy Now |
 Campmor | Hurricane Ridge XCR Waterproof Trail Runner (For Men) | $69.96 | Buy Now |
 Teton Village Sports 2 purchase options: | Hurricane Ridge XCR Shoe - Mens | $125.00 | Buy Now |
| Hurricane Ridge XCR Shoe - Womens | $125.00 | Buy Now |
 Sierra Trading Post | Hurricane Trail Running Shoes - Waterproof Gore-tex (r) - For Men | $63.96 | Buy Now |
 US Outdoor Store | Hurricane XCR - Women's | $61.95 | Buy Now |
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