Not to condescend to the fairer sex, but women might well appreciate the Cochise W family more for its everyday convenience, comfort and performance properties than for any purported proficiency for traveling off-trail. (The same could be said for all of the 2017...
As noted in Tecnica’s 2017 brand profile, the new Cochise is a start-from-scratch shoe that addresses every foible in its predecessor from the foundation up. Most elementally, the lower shells are made from different stuff, polyether (PE), so they transmit energy...
A woman with big feet is justifiably afraid she’ll have a hard time finding a comfortable fit. What should cause her equal concern is whether the boot that seems to fit her can also provide the support necessary to convey her downhill. The Ten.2 W models address both...
When we described Tecnica’s 2014 100mm boot for women, the Demon 105W, as “a fortress,” we weren’t being complimentary. Mercifully, the Mach 1 W MV models address our principal gripe, that the foot and the shell were too disconnected in the Demon W. One of the virtues...
The best women skiers with narrow feet have a problem: stick with a true race boot that’s good for running gates and not much else, or step off a performance cliff and accept the norm in made-for-women all-mountain boots. The new Mach 1 105 W LV works hard to bridge...
