Ski boots and hardware in your ankle

Almost 4 years ago I shattered my talas into 11 pieces, fractured my fibula, and broke my foot in 3 places. Left me with a rod in my leg, a plate down near my ankle w/ 8 screws & 3 pins, and a bunch of wire holding my foot together. After a year of PT I was ready to ski again.

I tried my hardest to shove my foot into my dalbello krypton 130 flex. NO fucking way it was gonna work. Mega pain getting it in there, and once I was in, I couldnt flex the boot. My first reaction was "oh shit, what am I gonna do?!" I'm a big guy at 6'5" 200 lb, agressive skier, and I tend to push my boots hard.

Solution: 3 piece boot with a wrap liner. In my case a Full Tilt. Easy to get in/out of, supportive, comfy, and styleee (BONUS POINTS!). It took a bit to get used to skiing a softer boot the first season, but I was just stoked to be out on the slopes. After that first year I realized I was getting stronger and needed something stiffer. So I wrote FT an email explaining my situation, and told them how their boot made it possible for me to ski again. BIG UPS Full Tilt. To say thanks for my support they sent me a stiffer tongue for the next season for free, Super cool!

I'm currently working on building a touring setup, and still having issues with finding the right boot with a combination of fit, flex, and whatnot. Thankfully I'm working with a good boot fitter who understands my injuries.

Honestly I still have pain every single day, and skiing 100+ days a season definitely doesn't help. Does it suck, well yeah, but not as much as not skiing at all would suck! Hope you can find something that works for you man.

Delayed response...but good to know. I mostly ride backcountry but maybe I'll get some FTs again for inbounds skiing this coming winter. I'd be interested to hear if any touring boots are better than others in terms of getting into and not feeling like the shell is pressing up against my fibula plate.

3ski6guy0Delayed response...but good to know. I mostly ride backcountry but maybe I'll get some FTs again for inbounds skiing this coming winter. I'd be interested to hear if any touring boots are better than others in terms of getting into and not feeling like the shell is pressing up against my fibula plate.

Ft have a touring boot coming out pretty soon. Its based off the evolution shell I'm pretty sure so slightly wider fitting at a 102 last. A wrap around intuition liner will pretty much be necessary as it is a softer more moaldable foam that will mold around and screws or plates. I have fitted a few people with screws around there ankles in boots with intuition liners with minimum issues. If you go to a good boot fitter they should also be able to grind or stretch shells to accommodate irregularities. The most important thing will be going to a good fitter.

Not actual hardware but I have a chip fracture on the top of my navicular bone that never fused back to the main bone when it healed. It is totally ok and all but it hurts and gets sore when pressure it applied to the top of my foot. My boot seems to irritate it all the time even years after the incident. I imagine having hardware in your feet/ankles would have the same effect, but possibly even worse.

Ya Intuition will be a must. I'm more worried about the boot entry aspect. I'll have to see what FT has to offer. They aren't my first choice though because I can't imagine they compare at all to something like Scarpa or Dynafit.

**This post was edited on May 22nd 2018 at 4:20:16pm

3ski6guy0Ya Intuition will be a must. I'm more worried about the boot entry aspect. I'll have to see what FT has to offer. They aren't my first choice though because I can't imagine they compare at all to something like Scarpa or Dynafit.

Scarpa and dynafit are going to be a much better touring boot im pretty sure but you could always get a scarpa or dynafit boot and swap out the liners. There are a lot of top class after sales liners that could work very well.

Most AT boots are 3 piece boots. They are a ton easier to get into compared any alpine boot with a walk mode.

Just tie two 2x4s to your feet and get insanely high, you won't notice the difference

VelcroraptorJust tie two 2x4s to your feet and get insanely high, you won't notice the difference

Good call