Get some boots out there – I think Tahoe Boot ‘n’ Bike Works in Heavenly was one that was pretty good (master boot fitters…) and there was a guy named Brent (another master boot fitter) at a shop on the way out of town (can’t remember its name but it was in a pull in off the main road and opposite a coffee shop.
I made the mistake of paying loads for some boots at ProFeet in London before we went to Heavenly – had real problems with the foot bed cuts too short at the heel so not sitting in the boot in the correct place and also with ridges in the boot crippling me. Profeet were rubbish at sorting this out.
Got them sorted in Heavenly but all my mates paid about half what I did for perfectly fitting boots from this Brent character.
Brent was also at the time fitting some boots for a USAF pilot who had lost half of one foot in a plane crash. Brent had cut the front off a boot, had sculpted 3/4 of a foot from wood and hollowed it out so the pilots foot ‘stump’ would fit in it perfecty, put it in the front of the boot, and then fixed the boot back together. Being a local the pilot would then be able to resume his offpiste skiing.
At Boot ‘n’ Bike Works the were fitting boots for someone else who had virtually lost her foot in a car crash but had it sown back on for partial return of functionality.
So I think it is safe to say they knew what they were doing.