Okay, after a long time I finally have to retire my old friends: It is time for some new skiing boots, or to be more precise, time for some new freeride boots! But which ones? So far, I used two pairs, that is a Scarpa Denali XT for longer hiking and my good old Salomon Equipe 9.0 for shorter hikes an freeride session. But to be honest, I’d rather prefer having one pair, that combines both worlds of skiing.

So I looked around and found some contestants: Scarpa Tornado Thermo and two Garmonts, the Garmont Endorphin G-Fit and the Garmont Shaman. The first two a hybrids between randonee/hiking and freeride boots, the Shaman seems to be a pure race/ downhill/ freeride boots: no release or walk mechanism, but exchangeable soles (whoever that needs).