>Your hiking shoes need to have a wide toe box they said
>It will be healthy for your feet they said
I used to use heavy clunky hiking shoes that were probably half a size too small and you could feel my toes slightly being pushed together a bit when I put them on. And I could do 30-60 mile day hikes / day-night hikes in those types of shoes, in wet conditions, and never had any problems whatsoever, not even a hint of a blister.

Now I'm trying out some more fancy, more-trail running style zero-drop hiking shoes. They all fit exactly how I've read they are supposed to: snug at the heel and midfoot, roomy at the toes. And within 2 miles in easy, dry conditions I am getting enough rubbing on the bottom of the toes for blisters to start forming and skin to start peeling.

So I'm guessing the minimalist shoe thing was just hippy bullshit.

I can't deny the trail runners are pretty comfortable though (at least for the first 1-2 miles). If I wear this style for long enough, will my feet adapt to them and stop having problems?