A lot of boots made for narrow feet are minimalist affairs derived directly from a race boot. The Hawx Ultra, however, is based on a recreational boot, although the Ultra is more than just a narrower Hawx Prime. It uses a new shell design called Progressive shell that...
All the hubbub about heat-molding technology – wonderful as it is – tends to obscure the built-in virtues of the shell being heated. In the case of the new Advant Edge, such oversight misses what makes these boots perform like training wheels for intermediate skiers....
The original Hawx series, a medium-lasted shell without a lot of flashy features, became an international best seller for a lot of subtle touches – a domed instep, flexible sidewalls, an abducted stance – that added up to above-market comfort and support at...
Head has the unusual – but welcome – habit of referencing forefoot width by size, indicating just how scaled down this dimension becomes with each drop in shell size. Also unusual is a volume measurement for each model, which for the Raptor 110 RS W is 1800cc,...
In the long, inglorious history of the plastic ski boot, the skier with the wide foot has had to content himself with either an Iron Maiden fit meant for a much slighter foot, or a pair of cavernous, collapsible pits into which he could pour both his feet and his...
