Guest Author Ray Rice, 20 year employee and manager for Surefoot - the largest seller of ski boots in the world - offers this guide to the best ski boot brands of the 2009-2010 ski season. Here's what's new in 2010 ski boots from the top manufacturers.
Atomic Ski Boots
Atomic is a manufacturer that has continued to work hard at innovation. The newest boots in the line are the Renu 110 and Renu 90at 98 mm width, these will perform as well and are billed as the first carbon negative planet positive product in the ski boot world. They use a style of plastic called Pebax Renew Bio Plastic.
Dalbello Ski Boots
Dalbello has emerged as a ski boot manufacturer and has a good amount of models. They are possibly best known for the Krypton that Glen Plake skis and promotes.
Fischer Ski Boots
With many different series of boots some of which are dedicated to women and a total of 20 models Fischer has made headway in the ski boot world. The company makes its entire line of boots with their Soma-Tec stance.
Full Tilt Ski Boots
Full Tilt is the company that, through K2, has purchased all the old lasts or shapes from Raichle. Seth Morrison skis this product so it has to be good.
Head Ski Boots
Head is a company with new ideas about ski boots and performance. They are on the rise or at least have the money and have signed some of the world's best skiers to their products.
Lange Ski Boots
Top of the line product is what the Lange ski boot company offers. In all models and throughout the entire line they have dedicated performance first. Lange has recently cut models and concentrated on what they have always done best, make the best skiing boots in the world.
Nordica Ski Boots
Nordica has many different series of boots, each with many models. It depends on the type of shop you are in for which models you will see. They have the Doberman, HR Pro, Speedmachine, Sportmachine, Gransport and One series available in men's and ladies with over 40 models involved.
Rossignol Ski Boots
Rossignol has many series of ski boot with over 30 models to look at. Most of these boots keep the same flex rating as the model name.
Salomon Ski Boots
Salomon has been dedicated to new school ski boot technology and has continued to let their athletes work with the designers.
Tecnica Ski Boots
Tecnica has 6 series and over 30 models of ski boots. They have the Dragon, Diablo, Phoenix, Mega, Agent and Attiva series each with many models.











