The Winter 2011-2012 Outside Magazine Buyer’s Guide is packed full of Boa Closure System ski and snowboard gear. Products highlighted include: Vans Veil, Vans Cirro and Flow Hylite snowboard boots, the Black Diamond Custom and Apex CF3 ski boots, and the Korkers Ice Jack winter hiking boot. Get your copy now!
Black Diamond athlete Zack Giffin (Black Diamond Quadrant Boa Ski Boot) is always prowling around the Pacific Northwest backcountry for prime lines, and the adventure featured in this video and report is absolutely prime. Big, steep, committing and sweet—this epic line on Mount Shuksan was for sure one of the highlights of Zack’s spring ski season.
BD athlete Zack Giffin and friends make an epic descent on Washington’s Mount Shuksan from Black Diamond Equipment on Vimeo.
Lightweight carbon fiber construction. Check. Boa Closure System locking it all together. Double check! Here’s a sneak peek of the new SCARPA Alien 1.0 ski mountaineering race boot from Wildsnow.com. Can’t wait to get my hands on a pair of these speedsters with Boa!
Text From Wild Snow.com
From Scarpa representative, lightly edited by WildSnow.com staff editing team: One attention grabbing feature of Scarpa Alien ski boots is an external closure that uses the Boa Lacing System. This offers super easy and quick adjustment, and yields a glove-like fit – the Boa wraps the lower boot around your foot in a form-fitting precise way. It is a perfect application for this technology. SCARPA worked with Boa and has patented (SCARPA’s patent) the unique, tool-less replaceable eyelets.
There are two boots: Alien 1.0 and the Alien.
Alien 1.0 is the lighter of the two boots, employing carbon-fiber construction. It’s what a lot of the top racers on the rando circuit are now using (even though this boot hits the market officially for F11, SCARPA has had this boot on many of its racers this and last season).
Alien 1.0 is 680 grams per boot, or 1 pound, 7.98 ounces. That makes it, near as we can tell, the lightest rando boot out there besides the two full carbon fiber boots (and they are not very much lighter), but more importantly we feel that it’s the highest performing one. That’s evidenced by the fact that, like I said, it’s being used by many of the top-winning rando racers right now.
Rest more about the SCARPA Alien 1.0 Boa Ski boot HERE on Wildsnow.com.
Black Diamond athlete Steve Romeo finds some funky November snow conditions up in the Tetons. Check out the vid below and turn those speakers up! By the way, check out all the BD AT Boa ski boots at Blackdiamondequipment.com.
November 2010 Middle Teton Glacier from randosteve on Vimeo.
Originally posted on SkiRacing.com
Lindsey Vonn became the only racer in American history to win World Cup races three days straight on Sunday in Austria. Wait, there’s more…she did this wearing the Exos Wrist Brace featuring the Boa Lacing System!
Read the rest of her story Here.
2010 U.S. Olympian Lindsey Vonn wears the Exos Short Arm Fracture Brace (in Leopard) featuring the Boa Lacing System
Story taken from The Denver Post
By John Meyer
LOVELAND — Steamboat resort icon Billy Kidd skied in the same pair of Salomons for two decades because they were comfortable. For this winter, however, he’s skiing in a revolutionary new boot designed and manufactured in Boulder by the man who made the boots Kidd used to win world championships titles in 1970.
The Apex boot essentially is a snowboarding boot inserted into a lightweight carbon fiber frame. The external carbon fiber structure provides the lateral stiffness and forward lean required to make skis perform, but can be removed easily for walking.
“My job as director of skiing is to go out and test the powder, make sure it’s safe for our guests,” Kidd said last week. “I have to go through the trees, and if a tree jumps in front of me, I need the performance to avoid it. It’s a combination of performance and comfort, and I love them.”
The boot has a seemingly minimalist external frame that invites skepticism, but former World Cup downhiller Chad Fleischer is also a convert. And Fleischer is a big guy — 6-feet-2 and 220 pounds.
Noticeably lighter than customary ski boots and way more comfortable, the Apex is the brainchild of longtime Boulder resident Denny Hanson, whose pedigree in boot design goes back four decades. The Apex boot debuted for sale in October (apexskiboots.com).
It is a thoroughly Colorado product. It was designed in Boulder, the carbon fiber pieces are fabricated in Boulder and the boot is assembled in Boulder. The walking boot utilizes the Boa Lacing System, the product of another Colorado company.
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Winter is coming! For all the female freeheelin’ tele-junkies, check out the Black Diamond Stiletto tele boot for 09 featuring the BD Power Fit Light Liner with Boa Lacing System. Black Diamond’s top-of-the-line women’s freeheel boot, the Stiletto craves big skis and fluid lines—be it waist-deep pow in the British Columbia backcountry or off-piste action at La Grave.
From MSNBC.com
New ski boot to be comfy but pricey at $1,295
By Catherine Tsai
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -Skiing, fun. Walking in ski boots back to the lodge, not so much.
In mid-September, a company in Boulder will start selling a ski boot it says is so comfortable that skiers accustomed to having their feet clamped into rigid plastic shells will be able to walk around in their boots like snowboarders and maybe even drive.
Comfort and convenience come at a price: $1,295. That’s at least a few hundred dollars more than a pair of high-end ski boots.
“We’ll be the most expensive boot on the market,” said Jim Malmgren, director of operations for Apex Sports Group.
The company hopes to sell 1,200 pairs this season. 
For years snowboarders have enjoyed softer boots whose main focus is keeping them centered on their boards, but skiers have to be able to apply pressure through their boots to make a turn.
“It’s trying to keep the ski part of your skeleton,” said David Ingemie, president of SnowSports Industries America.
The Apex ski boot is basically a heat-moldable liner fit inside a less bulky snowboard boot, with a lacing system by Boa Technology. The “walking” boot then slides into a trim but rigid two-buckle carbon-fiber chassis that fits into a ski binding.
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Steve Romeo gives the Boa Lacing system a thumbs up on the Black Diamond Factor AT boots. Read his review HERE.
The Black Diamond Factor - Photo by Steve Romeo of TetonAT.com