Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

JUNK!!! Don't go by the old reviews. The new YakTrax Pros are inferior to the old ones--the metal is soft AND they don't stay on. My wife and I wore out our new YakTrax Pros in just a few walks on icy sidewalks. The YakTrax pros that we bought a few years ago lasted more than a year, and I ran in them several miles per day, even on streets and sidewalks that were mostly clear. The coils on the new ones wore out with very mimimal exposure to cleared sidewalks and driveways when walking on mostly ice and snow. The metal they are using now must be softer. Indeed the new packaging lists recylcled metal whereas the old does not. I like the efforts to use recycled materials, but the must be including aluminum cans or some soft or inferior metal compared to what they used to be made of. I'd give a higher rating for people who ONLY walk on snow/ice, but even worse is that they do not stay on our boots when walking--the toe or the heel straps slip down and then the YakTrax Pros come off. The new ones came off when we went for a walk that was completely snow/ice (no exposed sidewalks). Our old ones NEVER came off. The new ones have a different strap design that looks like they would stay on better, but they are not. We're using them on the same boots that we used the old ones on. When the coils wear down, the Yak Trax become a series of sharp wires, which makes them even more dangerous when the suddenly come off. JUNK!!! You may as well wear something with spikes.