At one point or another, just about every skier has experienced the emotional roller coaster of finding a good pair of ski boots. The cruel reality of the sport we love is that the boots necessary ...

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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.

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 ...

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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 ...

I skied for years in off the rack boots, and they felt just “okay” - it didn’t bother me because I never expected ski boots to really feel good. We all know how great it feels to take our boots off at ...

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 ...