So this guy walks into a ski newsgroup and he says...

I should probably start a new thread for this one, but -- my current
main squeeze has this boot-fitting problem -- ample calves. That would
necessitate either a very low-top boot for her, or a very wide-top boot.
She has normal shaped feet, so that won't be a fitting issue.

Suggestions?

I tailed this msg. onto one of yours, ant, because I know you've faced
this dilemma before.

The solution probably won't be realized and utilized until the 2005-2006
ski season, but we'd like to be ready to drive all night if the right
opportunity presented itself. Tao- er, Yyyy is only 11 hours drive
time away on clear roads; Tahoe is only 23 hours away.

With that in mind, life is too short to spend a day at the hill with the
bootfitter when there are moguls to be razed and yards to be saled.


Right now I'm thinking about the shrubbery runs off of Skyline at
Heavenly. Imagine tree skiing where your face shots are literally
taller than the trees you're skiing through.

That's worth $60 a day and a dollar gas. And first tracks any which way
you turn. Plus, nobody can see you crash.


Hint: drop in from the top of Sky Express, not Dipper Express. In
average snow condx, the tree bowl between Sky and Dipper is a lot better
on the Sky side.

Jim Strohm wrote:

I should probably start a new thread for this one, but -- my current
main squeeze has this boot-fitting problem -- ample calves.

Common women's problem. Tell her to look for a women's boot.

--
Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

In article ,
Jim Strohm writes:
Suggestions?

She could wear high heels all the time. That should cure the problem in
time for the 05-06 season...

bruno.

"VtSkier" wrote in message
...
Ant,
Repeat after me:
"Before skiing in the autumn and every week thereafter, I
will cut my toenails as short as I can get them. Preferably
to a point where the front of my toe is well beyond the front
edge of the nail."

yeah, I do that. They still go black. I have 2/3 orthotics, and they slide,
and that seems to exacerbate it. My ankles are too thin too, and that allows
too much movement. Boot makers can't conceptualise that a wide foot doens't
mean a fat ankle. Padding only does so much.
I had one toenail half grown back, and it went black on a particularly bad
day, it was nowhere near the end of the toe. I haven't had proper big
toenails in years.

ant

"Jim Strohm" wrote in message
...
I should probably start a new thread for this one, but -- my current main
squeeze has this boot-fitting problem -- ample calves. That would
necessitate either a very low-top boot for her, or a very wide-top boot.
She has normal shaped feet, so that won't be a fitting issue.


women's boots. Most women have a big, low calf, and need boots with a lower
and maybe wider shaft. Don't bother with Technicas! even their women's ones
are useless for women with a big calf.
Any decent rental shop will have women's boots for women with women's
calves.
You can further tweak them by moving the top buckle, and most good women's
boots have this adjustment.

ant

ant wrote:

"VtSkier" wrote in message
...

Ant,
Repeat after me:
"Before skiing in the autumn and every week thereafter, I
will cut my toenails as short as I can get them. Preferably
to a point where the front of my toe is well beyond the front
edge of the nail."


yeah, I do that. They still go black. I have 2/3 orthotics, and they slide,
and that seems to exacerbate it.

Aaaah, yeah. I've only once had a toenail go black, and it was exactly
this that caused it: I just had my buckles way too loose, and I was
sliding around, and...well, you know the rest.

My ankles are too thin too, and that allows
too much movement. Boot makers can't conceptualise that a wide foot doens't
mean a fat ankle. Padding only does so much.

Hmm. What's your boot brand? I like the way Langes hug my ankle and
heel.

--
Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

ant wrote:
"VtSkier" wrote in message
...

Ant,
Repeat after me:
"Before skiing in the autumn and every week thereafter, I
will cut my toenails as short as I can get them. Preferably
to a point where the front of my toe is well beyond the front
edge of the nail."


yeah, I do that. They still go black. I have 2/3 orthotics, and they slide,
and that seems to exacerbate it. My ankles are too thin too, and that allows
too much movement. Boot makers can't conceptualise that a wide foot doens't
mean a fat ankle. Padding only does so much.
I had one toenail half grown back, and it went black on a particularly bad
day, it was nowhere near the end of the toe. I haven't had proper big
toenails in years.

ant


Jeez, with a problem like that, I might opt to have the
growing part of my toenail removed. Seems like a bitch
to have constant damage.

ant wrote:
"VtSkier" wrote in message
...

Ant,
Repeat after me:
"Before skiing in the autumn and every week thereafter, I
will cut my toenails as short as I can get them. Preferably
to a point where the front of my toe is well beyond the front
edge of the nail."


yeah, I do that. They still go black. I have 2/3 orthotics, and they slide,
and that seems to exacerbate it. My ankles are too thin too, and that allows
too much movement. Boot makers can't conceptualise that a wide foot doens't
mean a fat ankle. Padding only does so much.
I had one toenail half grown back, and it went black on a particularly bad
day, it was nowhere near the end of the toe. I haven't had proper big
toenails in years.

So take advantage of it - I used to have a set of 3x5 cards on my office
wall, each with a mounted big toe nail and the date I popped it off;
scared off dozens of wusses who thought they needed to bother me when I
was trying to get some work done.

Guess I don't understand. I don't have any such problem. I keep my
toenails clipped anyway--straight accross just like the Boy Scout Field
Manual suggests. I have full SureFoot orthotics that I won't ski a day
without--which don't slide forward. I have great Nordica boots with roomy
toeboxes but which grab my foot just in the right place to keep my feet
from EVER hitting the front of my boots--which might happen if I didnt stay
forward and keep my heals levered back into place in the heal of my boot. I
have a bone spur on the inside of my left foot--so I had the boot tech put a
special stretcher in there and heat my left boot so that it would accomodate
the spur. (much cheaper than surgury). My boots are actually much more comfy
than my walking shoes. I could only wish that others had similar fits.

--
I ski, therefore I am

"lal_truckee" wrote in message
...
ant wrote:
"VtSkier" wrote in message
...

Ant,
Repeat after me:
"Before skiing in the autumn and every week thereafter, I
will cut my toenails as short as I can get them. Preferably
to a point where the front of my toe is well beyond the front
edge of the nail."


yeah, I do that. They still go black. I have 2/3 orthotics, and they
slide,
and that seems to exacerbate it. My ankles are too thin too, and that
allows
too much movement. Boot makers can't conceptualise that a wide foot
doens't
mean a fat ankle. Padding only does so much.
I had one toenail half grown back, and it went black on a particularly
bad
day, it was nowhere near the end of the toe. I haven't had proper big
toenails in years.

So take advantage of it - I used to have a set of 3x5 cards on my office
wall, each with a mounted big toe nail and the date I popped it off;
scared off dozens of wusses who thought they needed to bother me when I
was trying to get some work done.

Wayne Decker wrote:

Guess I don't understand. I don't have any such problem. I keep my
toenails clipped anyway--straight accross just like the Boy Scout Field
Manual suggests. I have full SureFoot orthotics that I won't ski a day
without--which don't slide forward. I have great Nordica boots with roomy
toeboxes but which grab my foot just in the right place to keep my feet
from EVER hitting the front of my boots--which might happen if I didnt stay
forward and keep my heals levered back into place in the heal of my boot. I
have a bone spur on the inside of my left foot--so I had the boot tech put a
special stretcher in there and heat my left boot so that it would accomodate
the spur. (much cheaper than surgury). My boots are actually much more comfy
than my walking shoes. I could only wish that others had similar fits.

You sold your soul to the devil and all you got was perfect ski boots?

--
Cheers,
Bev
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Save the whales for dessert