The Columbia Newton Alpines are hiking boots suffering an identity crisis. Columbia doesn’t know what it wants them to be. Or perhaps more accurately, it wants you to think these boots can do everything when, in fact, they can’t.
Jerry-rigged by Columbia’s marketing into the role of hybrid boots for the street and light hikes, and with refreshed colorways for the brand’s S/S26 collection, the Newton Alpines initially appear as lightweight all-rounders for temperate conditions. In reality, they’re specced like cold-weather mid-terrain hiking boots. They’re well insulated, supportive, and very grippy.
