Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
On 2004-12-10, Janet penned:

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

On 2004-12-09, Janet penned:


My Hubby always had a problem with his feet getting cold until I bought him
the Hottronix boot warmers. They have a footbed that goes into the boot
which contains the warming element.


Does that mean you can't get a custom footbed if you use them?


Not sure, because the hottronix thing is very thin. My guess is you can use
both if the bootfitter knows what he's doing. I guess "footbed" was not the
best choice of words....sorry



No need to apologize. I'm just trying to arm myself with some info before I
go to the fitters.


Another boot you might want to try if you have trouble fitting your feet
into things comfortably is the Techtronix Icon. The liners have this
plug-in thing so they heat up and mold to your foot (you wear the boots
for about 10 min after they are heated up). It usually only needs to be
done once a season, but can be done a total of 300 times. They can also
be plugged in to dry (much lower power level than what's used in the
store to heat the liner to mold to your foot), and a plug-in for the car
lighter so you can warm them on the way to the slopes if you want (but
they don't stay warm all day, it's just so the boots don't get cold in
the car on the way). Both of these do not heat up enough to re-shape the
boots like in the store.

Other things can also be done to the boots to make them more custom fit,
so you're not limited to what the liner can do fit-wise.

I have these boots and really like them. I have a hard foot to fit -
wide foot, narrow heel, big calf.

They do come in mens and womens, but the performance is the same (i.e.,
the womens is not a lower-level version of the mens) The difference is
that the shell is shaped slightly different because mens and womens feet
(and lower leg) in general are different. So actually you can go with
whatever shell fits you better and get the same performance.

Don't know where you are (out west someplace?), but here in NJ I go to
Steve French at The Sports People in Far Hills NJ.

Janet