To everything there’s a season

If you’re a skier, have you ever tried, a) To take out your ski boot liner with orthotics inside from the shell? And b) Put your liner with orthotic insole back into that same shell?

Chances are you’ve done that in winter, around the ski season, when your boots were just at room temperature. If like me, you’re using a pretty stiff shell, chances is are, it’s an almost impossible task to perform without breaking something, like the molded orthotic insole, your fingers or your wrist.

Of course, I’m not even talking about making mistakes like putting the right liner in the left shell or the left insole in the right liner, I assume we all know our stuff.

Now, if you that job in July when it’s hot, or very hot out, this ordeal becomes a breeze as long as you don’t let the plastic melt (just kidding!) Everything is flexible, easy and all parts glide inside each other as if it were a marriage made in heaven.

If you happen to clean you ski boot shells and throw your smelly liners and insoles inside your washing machine – as you ought to do every so often, if you insist on making “clean” turns, do it in July. Not in November or in April!