Eomer
Trakanon Raider
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Yeah, a good boot fitter is paramount. The worst part about skiing is the boots. Just got back from doing a 20km ski tour yesterday, and my fucking feet are killing me. And those are actually halfway decent fitting boots. There's just no avoiding foot pain, unfortunately.
Boots are generally sized in Mondo sizes. You'd probably be around a 28 or 29, I think. As far as the boots fitting your bindings, so long as they're an alpine, DIN compatible boot they should work with any alpine bindings. However some bindings may only be able to adjust to handle so big of a boot. My Marker Duke bindings for example have a small and large version, depending on your boot length. But the front and back pieces to the binding are one solid piece since it converts to a touring binding. Most bindings the front and back are separate pieces, so there wouldn't be two different versions. Depending on how they were set up initially, it's possible the bindings would have to be remounted if the person prior to you had giant or tiny feet. You're probably fairly safe since you have a pretty average sized foot.
As far as Big P's skis go, you're probably going to want something in the 175-180cm range given your height, weight and ability. If you're skiing East Coast, then you don't need to worry much about getting super fat skis. You're probably going to want something that holds an edge well and isn't much more than 90-95 mm underfoot.
Boots are generally sized in Mondo sizes. You'd probably be around a 28 or 29, I think. As far as the boots fitting your bindings, so long as they're an alpine, DIN compatible boot they should work with any alpine bindings. However some bindings may only be able to adjust to handle so big of a boot. My Marker Duke bindings for example have a small and large version, depending on your boot length. But the front and back pieces to the binding are one solid piece since it converts to a touring binding. Most bindings the front and back are separate pieces, so there wouldn't be two different versions. Depending on how they were set up initially, it's possible the bindings would have to be remounted if the person prior to you had giant or tiny feet. You're probably fairly safe since you have a pretty average sized foot.
As far as Big P's skis go, you're probably going to want something in the 175-180cm range given your height, weight and ability. If you're skiing East Coast, then you don't need to worry much about getting super fat skis. You're probably going to want something that holds an edge well and isn't much more than 90-95 mm underfoot.
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