It was 2 days before Thanksgiving, and Aspen was getting absolutely nuked by an early winter snowstorm. I could almost smell ...

At one of its 24 shops around the world—from Aspen, Colo., and Santa Monica, Calif., to Verbier, Switzerland, and Oslo, Norway—Surefoot first takes computer-generated scans of the skier’s feet to ...

From goggles down to socks, just about every ski or snowboard gear company is likely to tell you that their piece of equipment is the key to optimizing your skiing experience. But ask any ski or ...

I can’t say this clearly enough: there is nothing you can do to instantly improve your skiing as much as getting a pair of perfectly fitted boots. And for most skiers, that means custom. So if you ...

Here at the Strategist, we like to think of ourselves as crazy (in the good way) about the stuff we buy, but as much as we’d like to, we can’t try everything. Which is why we have People’s Choice , in ...

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Good ski boots will make you forget you’re wearing them, but great boots will do that and help you drive your skis with precision. For that kind of greatness, you need a technologically advanced fit ...

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.