J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Trencher

First option is charcoal toe warmers. Then Boot gloves. Then battery heaters. If you only ski one week a year and rent boots, go with the charcoal toe warmers.

My wife suffers from Raynaud's, and over the years we have tried many mittens and liner combinations. The only thing that works for her is hand warmers.

Iceman wrote:Wait until the summer they will be cheap then :shock:

verbier is right. It's the same in the US.

verbier_ski_bum wrote:canting alone takes a minute and you probably won't even be charged for it.

Canting or cuff adjustment? Canting requires either removal of the binding and adding a canting strip, or adding material to the boot sole and planing. Neither is is normally free.

Cuff adjustment centres the leg in the boot cuff.

bandit wrote:When I was in my 30's I attended a residential week long ski course. Also being collected at the train station by the same co. was an elderly man in his 70's. I remember thinking that I hoped he was in another group as he'd slow our group down.

He was...it was the group that spent the whole week off piste with a Mountain Guide. He was seriously fit. Our group would have slowed him down :oops:

I remember learning to kayak at a swimming pool (at about age thirty), and thinking this old grey bearded man (who turned to be 70+) must be the janitor. Later I was watching someone doing all the different kayaks rolls with such ease and style - the old man. I later took classes from him. He broke his leg trying to rescue a kayak on a white water river at 72, but recovered and still paddled.

Seventy looked so old then. Strangely it doesn't so much these days.

Old Andy is right. I'm looking for full contact with the whole sole of my foot when I have resting pressure on the cuff. As I move forward to start a turn, I increase the pressure on the cuff, but also want to feel my weight move onto my toes a little. This is where having your boots and bindings set up correctly is crucial.

Ally, I have trouble with all that big toe, little toe stuff too.

Make sure to rent the new tip rocker type of skis next time. They do not require the same forward pressure as a regular camber skis.

Shopping in Denver would be your best bet if you have time there. The best deals are on line, so if there is the possibility of having them delivered to the place you are staying at, it would be worth looking at that option.

Sometimes the search engines make it hard to shop in another country so here's a start

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