In a little over a week, I'm going skiing in France for a week. This is not my first time, and I'm getting to the point where I can confidently get down pretty much any reasonable piste without falling over too much.
Once again, I'll be hiring my boots and skis and will therefore be running into a familiar problem: I have odd shaped feet.
For whatever reason, my feet are generally too wide, too deep and too lumpy and this makes finding a comfortable pair of boots a huge pain. More often than not, I've spent an hour finding ones I think fit in the hire place, gone out and swapped them after two hours because my toes have gone numb.
What I've been able to work out so far is that whilst I'm a size 9 in regular shoe-land, I'm a size 10 in ski boots, mostly to get the extra height above my toes.
My new plan is to buy some and never have to go through this again, but I have a dilemma: Do I buy in the UK and risk not being able to try them out until I haul them to France and find that they don't fit, or do I spent 300% more buying some on the resort, but at least know that I can try them that week and complain loudly at French people if they don't fit? Or is there some other sensible approach that's completely bypassed me?
tldr: What's the best way to buy ski boots if I've got odd shaped feet and tend to wait until I've actually been on the slope before I know if they fit or not?
P.S. If anyone can chuck out what I should be spending (roughly), that'd be great.
Once again, I'll be hiring my boots and skis and will therefore be running into a familiar problem: I have odd shaped feet.
For whatever reason, my feet are generally too wide, too deep and too lumpy and this makes finding a comfortable pair of boots a huge pain. More often than not, I've spent an hour finding ones I think fit in the hire place, gone out and swapped them after two hours because my toes have gone numb.
What I've been able to work out so far is that whilst I'm a size 9 in regular shoe-land, I'm a size 10 in ski boots, mostly to get the extra height above my toes.
My new plan is to buy some and never have to go through this again, but I have a dilemma: Do I buy in the UK and risk not being able to try them out until I haul them to France and find that they don't fit, or do I spent 300% more buying some on the resort, but at least know that I can try them that week and complain loudly at French people if they don't fit? Or is there some other sensible approach that's completely bypassed me?
tldr: What's the best way to buy ski boots if I've got odd shaped feet and tend to wait until I've actually been on the slope before I know if they fit or not?
P.S. If anyone can chuck out what I should be spending (roughly), that'd be great.
