"Blisters" - Review of KEEN Arroyo II Hiking Shoe - Men's

I wore this shoes for 4 days leading up to my trip down to Moab, Utah to make sure I had the break in process going for when I was down there. I have a regular width foot, with a high arch and "regular sized" ankles and heels. I normally wear a 10.5, but those were way to big, the 10's fit but there is a slight gap between my ankle and the back of the shoe. I did try on the 9.5 to see if that eliminated that space, but those were too tight. The back, top part of these rub against the back of my leg and created some pretty bad blisters. I ended up putting large band aids over and continued to wear them thinking it was just a break in process issue. Down in Moab I wore them hiking around my camp site, in a stream to gather rocks for a fire pit hoping the water would soften them up and the rubbing would go away. After they dried out over night I put them back on, but still were rubbing, nothing I did seemed to make this go away and I ended up using my North Face trail runners to hike in on my trip.
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