Favorite AND most hated BOOTS of all time

[sluffhunter]

Worst Ski boot = Tecnica (barn door) Icon Alu. Fucking barn door exploded on me in La Grave over 6 months ago. Still re-learning how to walk. When your big toe touches your shin.... NOT GOOD.
Lucky I was on a blue run, and not way out in the BC.

Best... Nordica Grand Prix (black ones) (stiff)

[Aldo]

I've been in Nordica's for over 20 years working my way thru GP's, 980's. 981's and next month some new Beasts. My feet like them, I like them. It's been a long time since I've hated boots.

[p-tex]

Best - Saloman Course. fit like cement, none of this facking soft boot crap.

Worst - Technica Icon X. It's a good boot just really bad fit for me.


Here's hopeing this years Lange is a good match since I just got it.

[Lumpy]

worst (looking)- Dolomite Secret Weapons; knee high

[Buster Highmen]

Best: Raichle Flexon Pro
Worst: Raichle Flexon Comp (the shin chewers).

Raichle does not know how to market their stuff, naming totally different boots basically the same.

Thermoflexes rool!

[Eldo]

Please excuse another journey down memory lane, but...

I still bear the scars of being the last person on the slopes at our local ski hills to be seen in leather, lace-up ski boots. My damn older brother always got the new stuff first, and I had to wait until he out-grew it before I could upgrade.

Anyways, sibling rivalry aside, some of my memorable ski boots over the years:

Lange leather lace ups - Shiny black leather and lace, kind of a weird domination scenario on the ski hill. (Had to clamp those bitches in a boot press when you took them off at the end of the ski day or the soles would warp.)

Nordica bananas - I don't think they were actually called Bananas, but they were some of the original plastic boots and came in a shocking yellow color.

Garmot Ultralights - Kind of like plastic slippers that you wore on the ski hill until your feet got frost bit and turned black (Actually, a much better boot than the easily explodable Scotts that all my friends had.)

Head Air boots - A classic, and I can't believe I threw them out! Super comfy with their inflatable liner that required you to carry a small pump in your jacket whenever you went skiing. Too bad they weighed a ton.

Most incredibly comfortable and high performance boots - That would be my snowboard boots...

Salomon 1080s - Probably the best ski boots I have ever owned, although I really am a cheap shit who could care less about boots and instead blows his money on skis.

[hopped]

Best: Lange AC7s with custom fit orthodocs(sp?) When i bought them they were "tight." The second season I used them they were approaching "race fit."

Worst: Those same Lance AC7s on my third year on them. By the end of my 2 first runs of the season, I had four blisters on my feet. Bought a new pair of Lange L8s that day- nice boots, but not quite the same as those AC7 bastards.

[Schmear]

Best AND worst: Raichle Flexon Comps, of the honeybee variety.

[Telenater]

Best: Scarpa TRaces after bootfitting

Worst: first year Garmont Squadra