Well dad and I have been Rocky nuts, and for good reason. Dads last pair had lasted him upward close to 15 years

, and my old pair is close to 10 years old, they were my brothers and I still use them to this day. We both bought a new pair as his sole was almost gone, and my old pair was just not warm enough. He got another pair, and his are awesome.
My pair on the other hand are not awesome. Actually they are terrible. And we know why. We were cheap, Rocky now has boots that are still made by gore tex like all the boots in the past, but they also have some that just say waterproof? Mine are the Utility Max boots 1000 grams of insulation, and they are just "waterproof". They lie, you need to get them in gore tex. That is a must. That and the rocks cut slits in the insides of both boots, from walking sideways on really steep rocky terrain, and I had the menonite lady, who owns a shoe business fix them for cheap. And now they are better, but before, while walking in snow, my feet were getting soaked, I might as well have just worn socks because they were so wet. So the moral of the story-GORE TEX, lol. BTW dads are like new still, my "new boots" look like they were dragged behind a truck for a couple miles