Tecnica’s Custom Adaptive Shape (C.A.S.) is an umbrella concept that influences how the shell, liner and other components are crafted. What C.A.S. enables are localized solutions that don’t require the entire structure to be stressed in order to relieve a pressure...
The Custom Adaptive Shape (C.A.S.) concept that is the key to the Mach 1 LV’s popularity with both bootfitters and their customers is a many splendored thing. Inspired by feedback from a cluster of America’s top bootfitters (including a few Realskiers’ test shops),...
The unusual look of the new QST Pro models suggest that they’re hybrids of a sort, and indeed they are. Made from equal parts of MTN and X Pro elements, QST Pro boots are an amalgam of on-trail and out-of-bounds properties. On the OB side, the skier is dropped as...
If you’re essentially an in-bounds skier with the occasional yen to roam the backcountry, the QST Pro is the shoe you’ve been looking for; however, if you regard riding a lift as weakness, the MTN models are right in your wheelhouse. If performance to weight were a...
K2 had an advantage when they built their first hike-mode (HM) boot: they hadn’t made any boots, so they could build the HM model from the ground up. Since making a killer BC boot was central to their line from the outset, they built an alpine boot technology, Energy...
