Help with change of AT boot from Scarpa Typhoon
Have skied a Scarpa Typhoon for the last 3-4 seasons (mainly downhill and lift-assisted touring, plus the odd longer tour but never multi-day). Happy with the boot, not so happy with the fit - I get cramps in the forefoot in the morning despite skiing with both forefoot buckles open, and I needed three layers of foam before the heel was snug enough. (so I guess I have a relatively big forefoot and narrow heel). Since the liner got smelly and I want the Dynafit option, I'd like to change to something better-fitting.
Now in St Anton for a week, I went over to two shops to try boots. Both fitters just measured the length of my feet, no shell check. One suggested Garmont Radium in size 27 Mondo or Dynafit Zzero 4C in 26.5, and tried to talk me off Dynafits. The other gave me a breakfast buffet of boots: the same two as above plus Dynafit TLT 5, BD Factors and Quadrant, and Technica Cochise, all in 27 (the Cochise was weird, I wanted to like it but I was swimming in that size).
Hard to say from fit in the shop but from some research it looked like the Radium may be ok for me - at least it's high enough volume around the forefoot. But then other say that it's big around the heel...
Any thoughts / recommendations?
(This is a family holiday so I have the time to test / go back etc)
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