Getting a proper boot Fitting experience is vital to ensuring you’re happy all day long on the mountain. If you want to get the best comfort and the best performance out of your ski boots, you almost always need an expert to look at your feet and your stance before you buy a new pair. Unfortunately people who live in warmer or flatter areas often have a hard time finding a boot fitter they can trust. Boot Solutions by Powder House seems to have found a way to fix that issue.
Rather than waiting until you arrive in a ski village or going out of your way to drive into the mountains, Boot Solutions is introducing a process in which you simply scan your feet and they do all the fitting remotely. Overall it seems pretty simple. You use the Boot Solutions app on on your phone to take a medical grade 3D scan of both feet and the company offers you plans from there. What comes next is where things really get wild.
Custom boot work generally needs close attention to how your feet fit in the ski boots, but Boot Solutions gets over this by carving out an exact replica of your feet from prosthetic grade foam with their world class 7 axis robotic milling system. With those prosthetics, the company can work on punching, grinding, heat molding, canting, cuff alignment, and anything else that needs to be done, all while you’re hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Perhaps the coolest part of the process is that the replicas of your feet are mailed with your boots. Not sure what you’d do with those, perhaps as decorations, but it is pretty neat nonetheless. Base packages currently start at $999, including boot work and a 1 year fit guarantee. You can sign up for early access here.
