Black Diamond X2 Fire Boots: A Review

Last month, when I won the Black Diamond Boots 2011 EMS Blog of the Year contest hosted by Fire Critic, I anxiously awaited the spoils of my victory.

Unfortunately, I apparently misread the contest rules, because my prize was not a date with one of the Black Diamond Boots babes, but a pair of their X2 fire boots.

Unfortunately, I don't fight fire and thus have no need for fire boots, but I wanted to post a review to thank Black Diamond for graciously sponsoring the contest. I gave them to my groveling pleading shamelessly begging grateful partner, Peter Griffin, and he recently had this to say:

The new boots are great. Thanks go out to Kelly for winning the blog contest, because now I own a new set of Black Diamond X2 boots. I have been in the fire service for about 5 years, and these boots are by far the lightest, toughest, and most comfortable boots that I have ever had; and they look cool too.

There you have it, folks. Light, tough, comfortable and damned good looking, which is why (I'm told) Black Diamond is the Cadillac of fire boots.