Skied today on the new boot. Wasn't the kids 70 after all, I guess that was the one that was too small. So it was a junior 90. Don't have them in front of me so can't give the exact model. But they felt good and I was able to get them on and off (with some effort). So I skied a bit and they definitely seem good. It was snowing hard and very low visibility on most of the mountain so I didn't ski steep, but in the easy stuff it finally felt like the boot was a part of my leg and I didn't have to think about it or work hard. Yea!
So we decided to keep going with those. He's continuing to work on them tonight, grinding the bottom angle so my knees align, adding plates to the bottom. I'm heading to Aspen tomorrow (first time) so I was thinking I was insane to start this process, but I think I'll be fine. Cross fingers! When I return he's going to add even more padding in some areas and re-make my footbeds. At first he said mine were "ok" but now he wants to give me a softer one since I have no padding on my first metatarsil joint.
Anyway, I agree, there's nothing better than a bootfitter, especially a local one you can keep going back to. This was Brent Hansen at SkiTec in Ketchum ID.
So we decided to keep going with those. He's continuing to work on them tonight, grinding the bottom angle so my knees align, adding plates to the bottom. I'm heading to Aspen tomorrow (first time) so I was thinking I was insane to start this process, but I think I'll be fine. Cross fingers! When I return he's going to add even more padding in some areas and re-make my footbeds. At first he said mine were "ok" but now he wants to give me a softer one since I have no padding on my first metatarsil joint.
Anyway, I agree, there's nothing better than a bootfitter, especially a local one you can keep going back to. This was Brent Hansen at SkiTec in Ketchum ID.
