Go back to your other boot thread,
Montrail Blue Ridge GTX!
I still stand by the Scarpa recommendation.
I have been wearing the Fugitive GTX for 5 years. I've never had blister problems with themafter I break in my feet at the beginning of the season. Other posters are correct, they have a LONG break in period.
I'll make a long story short, earlier this year an outfitter was getting a pair of crampons fitted properly to my boots and commented to another customer that the crampons would behave differently while attached to his well worn pair off boots, which folded in half almost effortlessly, as opposed to a "nearly new" pair of boots like mine, the outfitter was then working hard to flex the sole of my Fugitives, actually leaning into it to get it to flex just slightly.
Funny thing though, my fugitives have at least 5 years and now countless summit bids on them. Yes, they're super clean (not by accident), but they couldn't get any more broken in.
THAT'S how stiff and how long of a break in the Fugitive has.
My father has a version of those 520GV, maybe even that same model. Those are the better boots.