Now that my ski season has finally begun with two BC days and one lift-served in the Tahoe area, a problem that plagued me for parts of the previous two seasons in these Voo Doo boots has returned to spoil my tele fun, especially on lift-served days when it's turns all day. Thought I had it figured out and solved last season. When I bought the boots and they were baked/fitted by the shop, the fitter neglected to pull up the heat-softened tongues and left them too low so that top edges of the tongue's hard outer shells were the same height as the tops of the boot shells. This concentrated the pressure painfully on my shin so much that "driving the cuff" of that back ski was actively discouraged. I heated the tongues with a heat gun and stretched them up so the top edge of the boot shell now delivers its pressure at least an inch below the top of the tongues' hard, protective shell. This seemed to fix it at the end of last season, but I guess not, and I can't understand why this happens. The shop has been very unhelpful. Their lame and only solution was to tell me to stick a piece of carpet padding between my shin and the tongue, which helps only briefly, for a dozen turns or so, then just spreads the pain to a wider area.
After decades of constant foot pain with alpine boots I was looking forward to comfortable tele boots when I made the switch a few years ago. Garmont is not around to help with this issue. Does anyone have any experience with anything like this in Garmont or other boots? Is it possible that this is just a symptom of some other aspect of the fit of these boots?
After decades of constant foot pain with alpine boots I was looking forward to comfortable tele boots when I made the switch a few years ago. Garmont is not around to help with this issue. Does anyone have any experience with anything like this in Garmont or other boots? Is it possible that this is just a symptom of some other aspect of the fit of these boots?
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