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

Skiing in a pair of well-fitting boots in bottomless pow is snow-sports nirvana. And ill-fitting boots? Well, that’s undisputedly the opposite—painful and unresponsive—regardless of conditions. Making ...

COPPER MOUNTAIN – The launch of Surefoot’s new Contoura X1 liner this ski season could revolutionize the way skiers think about a boot’s fit, Copper Mountain Surefoot store manager Jeremiah Hughes ...

ZipFit is dropping a brand-new ultralight ski touring boot liner that’s quite a bit lighter than their current option. Any of you who have tried to make their boots more comfortable have probably come ...

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 ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. I'll admit, I was a skeptic. Even though Surefoot was a brand I had ...

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.

There is no piece of ski equipment more important than boots. Not clothes, not goggles, not even the skis themselves. Boots can make or break your ski experience, yet the vast majority of recreational ...

Any of you who have tried to make their boots more comfortable have probably come across ZipFit liners at some point. If you haven't, you should definitely check them out. Invented by the late ski ...