High performance female skiers with narrow feet haven’t had a lot of options aside from race boots; the Hawx Ultra W gives them a cornucopia of options in a single shell. Even if the skier never changes the flex or forward lean, never heats the customizable shell or...
As useful as the Hawx 2.0 series is for the male of the species, women might benefit even more from these special shoes. That’s because the boots don’t lose a lot of their quality features as they decline in flex index and cost, meaning that the Prime 80 W buyer still...
Women with wide feet face the same litany of woes as men do, often ending up alleviating the agony by accepting a boot that doesn’t meet their performance expectations. The Hawx Magma 90W and 80W deliver performance perfectly pitched to the woman with so-so skills who...
The beauty of the Live Fit W models is that they surrender all pretensions of trying to be close cousins of a race boot and instead deal directly with the problems of real skiers with outside-the-bell-curve foot and lower leg dimensions. The two-buckle shell design...
Atomic’s two principal product categories, Frontside and All-Mountain, receive a couple of notable upgrades, one deep inside and one applied on top. The inside alteration to the Vantage and Vantage X series is a switch to a maple/ash core to give the top models in...