If you’re a serious backcountry skier, check out Fischer’s Transalp collection of alpine touring boots. The tipoff that the Ranger isn’t your shoe lies in the sole: the Ranger lacks the tech inserts and rockered, super-grippy soles that are the hallmarks of hiking...
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...
A classic, 4-buckle boot made with every adaptation a woman with a yen to climb can covet: ultralight materials, a longer ROM, WTR sole with Tech inserts, Ultralon custom-fit liner and, for the downhill portion the exercise, all the power and precision of a...
Neither the Quest Access W family nor our 2016 assessment of its virtues have changed; while this commentary is a repost of last season’s report, the associated FIND buttons connect to 2017 starting inventory. We hope the main reason Salomon created the Quest Access...
As good 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...
