At the end of 2023, I walked into Edge of the World snowboard shop in Banner Elk, North Carolina and tried on a medley of boots. The ThirtyTwo Lashed was by far the most comfortable, but they didn’t ...

On an international ski trip a few months ago, I was forced to rent a pair of packed-out, over-worn boots that had definitely housed the feet of hundreds of strangers. Turns out they were more ...