At Least Ski Boots Don’t Have Droopy Laces

A while ago on the Grays on Trays discussion board we talked about BOA-equipped snowboarding boots. In brief, with these boots, you don’t tie laces, you simply turn a dial, and the laces (wires, really) are tightened for you.

By contrast, laces on snowboarding boots seem to be at least a foot longer than they need to be. Worse, an unlaced set of strings may turn out two feet long (or longer) meaning that they are likely to get dropped in the parking lot mud (as you get into or out of the boots). The things are so long, at least in my case, that I nearly trip on them as I carry them out to the car.

The answer to the latter problem is to stuff the laces inside the boots, but BOA boots would take care of these problems altogether.

Now if I would only get some more money into the snowboarding budget to pay for them.