Re-inserting Boot Liner

Hi,

My last two or three ski trips I have taken to removing my ski boot liners at the end of each day, also the liner insoles and boot insoles. This is to help everything dry out for the next day. And this works. Each morning I have to re-assemble everything. Getting the boot liner back into the boot is a bit of a faff, and resulted in a bleeding knuckle last week. I wonder if there is an easier way of getting the boot liner back into the boot? I wondered if it is possible to put the boot liner on your foot, and then put both your foot and liner into the boot at the same time. I haven't tried this and suspect it is impossible. I saw some slalom skiers doing it, but I guess their boots are different. Any handy tips??

Do you really need to do this everyday? Most decent ski accommodation now has heated racks for boots which will dry them out thoroughly overnight :shock:.

Our accommodation last year in Val Thoren did have them but annoyingly the heat was turned off at some point in the evening :evil:. While the boots would dry out, this meant that they were cold in the morning but more importantly stiff as hell - a quick boost of the heating system in the morning would have made for much more comfortable fitting first thing :wink: .

If there is no heating in the ski room, then just take them up to your room - they should dry out nicely overnight :mrgreen: .

Yes I agree ! Why do your boots get so wet ? They not supposed to let in water ? Same here we put our boots on radiator in room and they bone dry by morning if this doesn't work u can buy air dryers u plug in and insert into boot!
I think taking your boots apart every night is not a good idea ! Are they hired or your own ?

I poke the toe bit into the top of the boot, then squeeze the heel portion to push it all south. Once making progress I put my hand inside the liner to fix it in place. I have dainty girl hands. Husband would not have a hope.

The insides of my boots never get wet. (OK, I don't wish to start the "old school" discussion about rear entry boots, I am happy that my current boot design is about as good as it gets!)

A week or so ago, in Austria, my youngest son mentioned his boots were not drying out overnight. So after skiing, I checked them, they we soaking, mine were bone dry.

Next morning, I checked how he was wearing his sallopets.

In most sallopets there is an internal elasticated sleeve. This is meant to go OUTSIDE AND OVER the boot. It may seem rather obvious, but then, if you do not know this, it is very easy to get wrong.

Folk are wearing their sallos when they put their boots on, and it is easy just to position the boots over the sleeve. There are no instructions with the boots or sallos.

You should put boot liner on foot and then step into boot. As someone with laces on my liners this is an everyday necessity.

You might also want to take some duct tape with you skiing. Lange boots in particular see to have almost no overlap of the plastic shell below toe buckle. If you are skiing any sort of powder then is almost inevitable you will get cold wet feet if you don't take this precaution.

Of course Dave Mac's solution is probably the easiest. You just need to be old school to know where to get your hands on a set of rear entry boots. Blizzard of Aaahhs.

'Blizzard of Aaaahs'. Glen Plake. I remember it well!
And no helmets required, simply skill!(and a bad hairstyle).

The problem is caused by the bottom of the plastic cuff on the boot liner snagging on the top of the shell cuff.



When you put the liner back in stop when you feel it won't go any further and pull the shell cuff out of the way. It should then slide in without any trouble.

If you have lace up boot liners you can put them on first and then put them in the shells, but the extra wear and tear will reduce the life of the liner.

How often you have to take them out depends on how badly the boots leak and how much your feet sweat. If you have really sweaty feet and you don't dry them out they will soon stink to high heaven as the foam provides an ideal breeding ground for bacteria and fungi. Water conducts heat away from the body 25 time better than air so if the liners are still wet when you put them on the following morning you are more likely to get cold feet.