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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
