$1,295. That’s the price you’ll pay for the newest ski-boot technology. Billed as the world’s most expensive ski boot (Dynafit and SCARPA have pricier AT/randonee boots), the Apex Sports Group’s Apex boot caught my eye not because of its price, but because it promises comfort as well as control (and will help eliminate the clompy Frankenstein walk to the lifts).
The Boulder-based company’s Apex looks like the offspring of a snowboard boot and ski boot, with heat-moldable walkaway inner boots paired with a 100-percent carbon-fiber outer shell. “Soft shell” ski boots have been on the scene for a while (Rossignol offered a Soft 3 which combined some snowboard boot characteristics with traditional ski boot technology, but it’s not in its roster of new boots this year); none had the form and function of the Apex.
The Apex also made the October issue of Outside magazine, in an article celebrating the newest technology. Other cool new winter-ready innovations in that article: Isaora’s Matrix Plaid Insulated Shirt ($229), which looks like your grandpa’s old flannel but performs like a mountaineering jacket, and Alite Designs’Monarch Butterfly Chair, a two-legged (that’s right – two-legged) camp chair ($59) that weighs only 18 ounces and keeps your butt off the cold ground on those winter camping trips.
– Deb Acord
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