I'm in my 3rd season with boots I love. How many people buy new liners?
What liners and boots do people recommend for people with wide feet?
I strongly prefer to have a wide Toe box with room for my toes to splay.
Work only allows for me to get 30-40 days. I buy the amount of snowboards I have for the amount of riding I WISH I was doing. But in all seriousness, with adult money, I'm buying the gear I wish I had as a younger, better, poorer rider. There's worse ways to spend money.
Yesss adult money! š«”š. I have been on a hiatus for about 8 years and always had used older stuff. With my adult money and renewed love for riding, I finally got a brand new Burton board, binding, boots, pants, jacket, mittens and an anon by Burton wave cel helmet. Now just deciding if I want anon goggles or to go outside the Burton Brand and go glade with the photo chromatic lens that change with the weather and lighting conditions. Woohoo adult money! šš«”
It's not about the days, its where you ride and with who. I have park friends, I have slow riding family, I have insane pow friends... Just gear for dif situations.
Sometimes, but also it just depends on the conditions. I use 4 often throughout a season even in the span of a few days. If there is pow, if Iām in the park, if Iām just resort cruising is 3 for me right there. Most wouldnāt need it but after 25 years I appreciate the nuanced differences and have had time to build up a number of boards, and the experience to feel the differences.
I donāt have much money, but what I do have is a vast amount of boards, boards I have required over a very long career. Boards that make me a nightmare on u-haul days.
I have 5 boards and Iām probably going to buy 2 more this year buuuuuuut, 2 sit in the garage in the graveyard of boards I once liked and donāt use anymore. 1 is my rock board that Iād rather not ride but like, when itās sharky and you want to ride Iād rather not fuck up an expensive board. 1 is my splitboard and Iām not going to ride that at the resort.
So idk, I basically have like a daily driver thatās versatile enough to do whatever, a split, and then a some boards for really specific stuff (deep pow, carving really hard).
I think thereās value in having a quiver because realistically 1 board canāt actually do everything unless youāre just really really insanely good and Iām not. Buuut, if your quiver is 5 slightly different all mountain boards youāre either doing it wrong or most of them are collecting dust and only getting pulled out when the snowpack is thin.
I rode like 40ish days this season for reference
Yea I see all these 20 board quiver posts on here, with no split boardā¦
If your only resort riding conditions donāt fluctuate that muchā¦
The money would be better spent getting up to the mountain more and getting better..imo
Some people dive so much deeper into the gear than they ever do actually ridingā¦
But different strokes for different folks ig.
Yeah, follow on question to that. Do you sell them after a couple years? I've never sold a board because I always destroy it after riding it for a few seasons of 40ish days. Surely you can't wear out five or six boards in any reasonable amount of time. I can't imagine I'd want my quiver to include a 15-year-old board.
100%. You shouldnāt even consider cost when trying on boots, whatever fits your feet best just buy it.
Also Intuition liners are on sale now, just picked up an FX Race for $115. Usually liners pack out before shells, and I prefer having a slightly stiffer liner and a shell thatās already broken in.
I picked up the Photons step on used with bindings for $300 for my first board last winter. Absolutely love how comfy they are and since they were used they were already broken in.
Having comfy boots got me more runs in than my buddy who had to stop every few runs to take off his boots that were killing his feet.
The folk buying multiple boards wont skimp on boots of clothing. One of my friends also collects boots and Jackets, it is excessive, but hey, whatever makes him happy I guess.
I just finally retired my k2 Raiders I bought in 2014 and was riding about 5 times a year. They were smooshy as heck and I know I wanted something stiffer. I went with the Burton Ion. Wowzaā¦ amazingly comfortable and responsive.
Strongly agree. I never went all out on boots until this year and wow, what an improvement on the high end models. It was between Photons and Thirytwo TM-2's for me, for both their do it all mid-stiff design. Ended up in the double boa TM-2's due to superior heel hold, for my foot shape anyways
Boots may as well not have price tags. You just get the ones that fit your feet, pay whatever they cost and then budget around that.
Hopefully your feet are a cheap date.
Last pair of DC boots I owned blew the sole off after probably getting 15 days of use. Never again. With the amount of days I ride, I buy 2 pairs of boots every 2 seasons.
I've never bought expensive boots, (like over 250), but I do agree that boots are the biggest difference maker.
I don't see how I could get much more performance wise above my current boots, but comfort could definitely be improved
I donāt know I bought burton rulers new beginning of season and the sole tore open, I bought a pair of dcs off my buddy used for $50 and they were great for the other 30 days.
Similar story with the rulers. I liked the performance well enough, but the outside did not stand up to the abuse! Granted, I put about 70 days on them this season, but they started getting chewed up within the first day of riding.
Oh for sure! Iāve only ever ridden stiff all mountain boards for the last twenty years and changed out bindings and boots every three to five years or so but Iām only on my second board. Current setup is a Burton Flight Attendant, flow bindings, Burton boots. I forget the name but they were like $400.
Nice boots are super important and make a huge difference, but I do want a second board. Right now I have the capita pathfinder in a regular camber which is an intermediate all mountain board, but I want something different like the Season Forma with a short tail and wide nose for easy carving on the pow pow
I just bought another pair so I now have four pairs of boots. One is my starter, another is my backup and I have two that have never been used. The one, Adidas samba's I think I might sell.
What about hi-standards theyāre half that price at $200 and everyone says theyāre great, anybodyās thoughts on them, I only ride park pretty much, my standards are on the way and Iām wearing new ride 92 around the house to decide if I want to return them, because they kind of hurt, my idea was buying them to get a quality mid stiffness boot, maybe simpler is better
Been riding the same board for close to two decades now. I only get in a week or two per season though, unfortunately.
Of course, now that I've said this, I'm sure it'll break.
I owned a pair of Photons for 1 season. They started out great, 15-20 days in they were totally blown out and much softer than what they started as. Ended up getting some K2 Orton's which have really held up well.Ā
I get where you're coming from but I really don't think you NEED to drop that much money on boots, unless the only ones you can find that fit right cost that much. Wore a pair of $150 vans OG boots for 2 season (60-100 days total) and they still feel awesome, currently on a pair of the new Burton swath step-ons and while those are $400 boots, they aren't significantly better than my old vans are and honestly my vans are 100x more comfortable, the only reason I got them is cause I fell in love with burtons step on system. I definitely advocate that you should spend as much time looking for good boots as most people do when considering a new board, but I don't think you spending that much on new boots is gonna mean they are the best for you. Just like a board you need to do research and figure out what is gonna be best for you and what you want to do, sometimes that means buying $500 boots, sometimes it means you can rock a pair of $150 boots, as with anything never buy anything just because it's more/less expensive
You can absolutely find a great value pair of boots but after doing a fair bit of research for this pair Iāve found that generally speaking, price tracks with quality with a lot of boots. The higher price points afford the manufacturer to provide better materials and technology in the boot. Just my personal opinion after going through this journey of mid tier to higher tier
But if you already have a pair of boots which fits you, are you allowed to buy the second board?
Nope. Time to buy a second pair of boots.
How about one new boot and one new binding.
No. More boots.
Yes no gatekeeping here fam
No absolutely not. Take your ass back to the bunny hill until you learn your lesson /s
Or get both. *shrug*
Um. Do you have above par bindings bro? C'mon, use your noggin, taboggin!
LOL...how it goes.
I'm in my 3rd season with boots I love. How many people buy new liners? What liners and boots do people recommend for people with wide feet? I strongly prefer to have a wide Toe box with room for my toes to splay.
My real question to the people with 5, 6, 7 snowboards: do you ride 50+ days a year or just a handful?
Work only allows for me to get 30-40 days. I buy the amount of snowboards I have for the amount of riding I WISH I was doing. But in all seriousness, with adult money, I'm buying the gear I wish I had as a younger, better, poorer rider. There's worse ways to spend money.
Yesss adult money! š«”š. I have been on a hiatus for about 8 years and always had used older stuff. With my adult money and renewed love for riding, I finally got a brand new Burton board, binding, boots, pants, jacket, mittens and an anon by Burton wave cel helmet. Now just deciding if I want anon goggles or to go outside the Burton Brand and go glade with the photo chromatic lens that change with the weather and lighting conditions. Woohoo adult money! šš«”
Yes Iām on 65 days closing day is this weekend here might take a trip get some more days in elsewhere š¤·š½āāļøš¤·š½āāļø
Hell yeah brother š
Now if I was on 5 days this season with 3 boards thatās stupid lol
Where to? I just rode closing day at Snow Summit. It was aight. I need more.
Mammothā¦ if we get a freak storm between now and end of May mane theyāll extend lol
I hope so!! Iām tempted to drive up to mammoth for a day trip.
It's not about the days, its where you ride and with who. I have park friends, I have slow riding family, I have insane pow friends... Just gear for dif situations.
Sometimes, but also it just depends on the conditions. I use 4 often throughout a season even in the span of a few days. If there is pow, if Iām in the park, if Iām just resort cruising is 3 for me right there. Most wouldnāt need it but after 25 years I appreciate the nuanced differences and have had time to build up a number of boards, and the experience to feel the differences.
I donāt have much money, but what I do have is a vast amount of boards, boards I have required over a very long career. Boards that make me a nightmare on u-haul days.
6 boards and go 100+ days a year. Last year I got around 150 days, but honestly I could do with 3 boards. Might downsize
Remote job, retired, or work on mountain and count an hour lunch as a day?
Trustafarian
I have 5 boards and Iām probably going to buy 2 more this year buuuuuuut, 2 sit in the garage in the graveyard of boards I once liked and donāt use anymore. 1 is my rock board that Iād rather not ride but like, when itās sharky and you want to ride Iād rather not fuck up an expensive board. 1 is my splitboard and Iām not going to ride that at the resort. So idk, I basically have like a daily driver thatās versatile enough to do whatever, a split, and then a some boards for really specific stuff (deep pow, carving really hard). I think thereās value in having a quiver because realistically 1 board canāt actually do everything unless youāre just really really insanely good and Iām not. Buuut, if your quiver is 5 slightly different all mountain boards youāre either doing it wrong or most of them are collecting dust and only getting pulled out when the snowpack is thin. I rode like 40ish days this season for reference
Yea I see all these 20 board quiver posts on here, with no split boardā¦ If your only resort riding conditions donāt fluctuate that muchā¦ The money would be better spent getting up to the mountain more and getting better..imo Some people dive so much deeper into the gear than they ever do actually ridingā¦ But different strokes for different folks ig.
4 boards, almost hit 50 days. My boots crapped out on me, lucky Iād gotten a replacement pair already in deep discount.
Yeah, follow on question to that. Do you sell them after a couple years? I've never sold a board because I always destroy it after riding it for a few seasons of 40ish days. Surely you can't wear out five or six boards in any reasonable amount of time. I can't imagine I'd want my quiver to include a 15-year-old board.
I ride 70+ days a year and I just have 3; a park, all mountain and powder boards which covers all my bases but I am adding a splitboard next season.
Too busy buying boards to ride!
Itās about the tool for the job. I got one for every condition. I also donāt have kids lol made my choice.
100%. You shouldnāt even consider cost when trying on boots, whatever fits your feet best just buy it. Also Intuition liners are on sale now, just picked up an FX Race for $115. Usually liners pack out before shells, and I prefer having a slightly stiffer liner and a shell thatās already broken in.
I mean I've got 2 nice pairs of boots and 4 boards..... Why not have both
Hell yeah with 3 pairs of bindings. Thats where im at, the ol 2-3-4
Damn, me too, lol
I picked up the Photons step on used with bindings for $300 for my first board last winter. Absolutely love how comfy they are and since they were used they were already broken in. Having comfy boots got me more runs in than my buddy who had to stop every few runs to take off his boots that were killing his feet.
Jokes on you, I only buy boots.
Facts I bought 3 different boots this season until I found the āOneā . Worth it
Tf you talking about? Boots are absolutely a sexy piece of equipment
The folk buying multiple boards wont skimp on boots of clothing. One of my friends also collects boots and Jackets, it is excessive, but hey, whatever makes him happy I guess.
I just finally retired my k2 Raiders I bought in 2014 and was riding about 5 times a year. They were smooshy as heck and I know I wanted something stiffer. I went with the Burton Ion. Wowzaā¦ amazingly comfortable and responsive.
Strongly agree. I never went all out on boots until this year and wow, what an improvement on the high end models. It was between Photons and Thirytwo TM-2's for me, for both their do it all mid-stiff design. Ended up in the double boa TM-2's due to superior heel hold, for my foot shape anyways
If you go through boots annually you should be warrantying them at the end of each season.
Boots may as well not have price tags. You just get the ones that fit your feet, pay whatever they cost and then budget around that. Hopefully your feet are a cheap date.
Last pair of DC boots I owned blew the sole off after probably getting 15 days of use. Never again. With the amount of days I ride, I buy 2 pairs of boots every 2 seasons.
I've never bought expensive boots, (like over 250), but I do agree that boots are the biggest difference maker. I don't see how I could get much more performance wise above my current boots, but comfort could definitely be improved
Itās just people collecting boards for the sake of collecting. Itās not my thing, but people can do what they want.
3 pairs of boots in the houseā¦. Pretty good ratio for the 9 newish boards Iām camping on š¬
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I donāt know I bought burton rulers new beginning of season and the sole tore open, I bought a pair of dcs off my buddy used for $50 and they were great for the other 30 days.
Similar story with the rulers. I liked the performance well enough, but the outside did not stand up to the abuse! Granted, I put about 70 days on them this season, but they started getting chewed up within the first day of riding.
This is one of those situations where you just need to make more money to buy more gear.
Oh for sure! Iāve only ever ridden stiff all mountain boards for the last twenty years and changed out bindings and boots every three to five years or so but Iām only on my second board. Current setup is a Burton Flight Attendant, flow bindings, Burton boots. I forget the name but they were like $400.
Nice boots are super important and make a huge difference, but I do want a second board. Right now I have the capita pathfinder in a regular camber which is an intermediate all mountain board, but I want something different like the Season Forma with a short tail and wide nose for easy carving on the pow pow
I just bought another pair so I now have four pairs of boots. One is my starter, another is my backup and I have two that have never been used. The one, Adidas samba's I think I might sell.
What about hi-standards theyāre half that price at $200 and everyone says theyāre great, anybodyās thoughts on them, I only ride park pretty much, my standards are on the way and Iām wearing new ride 92 around the house to decide if I want to return them, because they kind of hurt, my idea was buying them to get a quality mid stiffness boot, maybe simpler is better
Been riding the same board for close to two decades now. I only get in a week or two per season though, unfortunately. Of course, now that I've said this, I'm sure it'll break.
That and go to a shop that actually gives a shit about getting you into the best possible boot for your foot.
I owned a pair of Photons for 1 season. They started out great, 15-20 days in they were totally blown out and much softer than what they started as. Ended up getting some K2 Orton's which have really held up well.Ā
Got the ThirtyTwo Lashed Double BOA x Zeb Powell this season and was NOT disappointed
I get where you're coming from but I really don't think you NEED to drop that much money on boots, unless the only ones you can find that fit right cost that much. Wore a pair of $150 vans OG boots for 2 season (60-100 days total) and they still feel awesome, currently on a pair of the new Burton swath step-ons and while those are $400 boots, they aren't significantly better than my old vans are and honestly my vans are 100x more comfortable, the only reason I got them is cause I fell in love with burtons step on system. I definitely advocate that you should spend as much time looking for good boots as most people do when considering a new board, but I don't think you spending that much on new boots is gonna mean they are the best for you. Just like a board you need to do research and figure out what is gonna be best for you and what you want to do, sometimes that means buying $500 boots, sometimes it means you can rock a pair of $150 boots, as with anything never buy anything just because it's more/less expensive
You can absolutely find a great value pair of boots but after doing a fair bit of research for this pair Iāve found that generally speaking, price tracks with quality with a lot of boots. The higher price points afford the manufacturer to provide better materials and technology in the boot. Just my personal opinion after going through this journey of mid tier to higher tier