I still remember my first pair of ski boots. I picked a size that "felt okay" in the store, trusted the comfort test for 20 minutes, and walked out $400 lighter. By lunch that first day on the mountain, my toes were numb, my shins throbbed, and I had to cut the trip short. That […]

If you just dropped serious money on new ski boots, learning how to break in new ski boots the right way will save you from weeks of pain on the mountain. I've been skiing for over 15 years and I've made every mistake in the book, including the classic blunder of wearing my new boots […]

I still remember the first pair of cross country ski boots I owned — stiff, paper-thin, and absolutely freezing by the third kilometer. That was years ago. After spending the past three winters logging roughly 600km on everything from groomed trails in Vermont to rolling backcountry terrain in the Rockies, our team has landed on […]