At one point or another, just about every skier has experienced the emotional roller coaster of finding a good pair of ski ...

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Are you buying boots online with no access to a bootfitter? Here’s a step-by-step guide to fitting boots on your own. When the weather starts cooling down and skiers start thinking about gearing up ...

Some people who buy ski boots can wear them without problems pretty much right out of the box. Everyone else needs a boot fitter. In the ski world, boot fitting has reached the status of high art.

Gear testers, ski instructors, and ski industry professionals spend a lot of time in ski boots--like, 50-plus days a season. We also occasionally have to ask them to wedge their feet into ski boots ...

A guy I grew up with here has an amusing but apt nickname for ski boots: “Cruel shoes,” he calls them. Putting your poor feet back into the dark, dank recess of your ski boots for the first time is a ...

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View post: How Often Do You Buy New Skis? Here's What Skiers Say At one point or another, just about every skier has experienced the emotional roller coaster of finding a good pair of ski boots. The ...