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After 5 Scottish Winter routes and their accompanying walkins, My G5s will have to go.

It's a shame, as they climb really well, but I've started experiencing a lot of discomfort on the walkins (usually on steep ground) due to a developing pressure point on my left instep.

Before I test the tolerance of Outside's returns policy or putting them on eBay - has anyone had similar issues, and resolved them? 

Have you tried changing the insole with superfeet etc? Do you get on with other LS boots?

Funny, I have similar problems with my ice cubes, pain on the heel. After two consecutive days it's pretty bad. I've played around with insoles and it seems to be sorted. I actually took my molded insoles and went back to the cheap foam ones and it is way better

Cheers both. I have some insoles I can try, hopefully it won't take a walk-in to SCNL to check that they've improved.

Not with G5s but with Baturas. developed a serious paid on the ball of both feet.  so bad I had to sell the boots.  I had the same with the Nepal Evo but not as bad.  The Nepal cubes were ok strangely but I never really got enough miles in them before my first long walk destroyed the side of my ankles.  I put up with the Nepal evo and the pain went away as the sole wore down, so much so that I didn't even consider it when buying the Baturas, the Baturas resulted in a hematoma. I'm a slow learner.  I diagnosis based on my own experience was that a wider fit was required.

I’m sure a couple of hours of box steps will do it! Btw if you decide you want to pass them on at a bargain price... 

With Baturas (which are now close to death...not the most durable boots) I had real trouble on traversing ground; the outside of my downhill foot would be in agony. This was fixed when I started using superfeet insoles, slightly supportive ones. Definitely worth trying a range of different ones to see if that fixes the problem.

Yes, that sounds similar to the issue I'm having. Sounds promising. And now that I'm stuck at home due to a 7 foot snowdrift on my drive, I should have time to try it out.