| TinaInIztok24. 02. 2015 12:59:15 |
Kolar,
sorry for late reply, shortly after your question snow started, so ... 
You've probably tried everything yourself by now, but I wanted to add one more opinion.
Wear on hiking boots is really greater when they are clipped in bindings, but otherwise I don't know how bad, especially if you're not obsessed with everything having to be "shined" - I, for example, have been boarding a lot the last two years using over 10 years old hiking boots that I had already used a lot before, and except for slight scrapes where the bindings go over, there are no signs of wear (for example, the lace marks are much more noticeable ).
I would like to emphasize that it's good to wear (especially if going for longer) some really thick socks, sufficiently long pants or some winter improvised "shin guards", because it can chafe a bit at the back where the binding backrest touches the leg, and the experience can be unjustly worse than otherwise - well, at least my little hikers are much lower than ski boots and the binding backrest comes directly onto the leg.
Otherwise, as already mentioned, when choosing shoes (hikers, ski boots), it depends on everything about the individual. If you're more accustomed to stiff ski boots and board mostly on hard pistes or terrain, hikers might not appeal to you, but on soft terrain they can give that extra sense of softness and feel that ski boots can't.
Two years ago a hard blister appeared on the sole in ski boots and they were no longer usable; meanwhile someone here on the forum told me they board in hikers - and I thought I wouldn't go back to ski boots - even when I tried last year with stiffer and heavier winter hikers (otherwise I have fairly soft or already softened summer ones), it wasn't as nice anymore, so just find one day (or two ) to find a hill nearby and try all variants, and always take at least a screwdriver, pliers and some extra gear with you - after all, the charm of boarding is also in screwing around with the settings and adjusting the gear to exhaustion 
Fingers crossed that this new snow reaches as low as the lowlands 
Iztok
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