In reply to Doug:
> (In reply to shaigh) Always found that my normal 'hill fitness' was sufficient for a an average days skiing so can't really comment, are you saying skiers are unfit ?
Often they are, but I think even fairly fit people underestimate the effort required, especially if the going is tough (e.g. breakable crust or long flat sections).
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> I've not been to Chamonix for a couple of years but I'm sure I've read either that Footworks has shut, or maybe it was that the bootfitter moved elsewhere. That said, there's more choice in Chamonix for ski boots than in the entire UK
Hope I'm not getting confused, there was a specialist boot fitters in Argentiere 3 weeks ago, part of the "ChamEx" shop and I'm sure it was footworks (kind of a shop within a shop). The same fitters also had a shop in Cham. A friend went in to buy some boots and they advised him to get a pair of Scarpa Denalis, but they didn't have his size in stock, so they called the Cham shop and someone drove up there and then with a pair of boots for him. That sounds like pretty good service. See <
http://www.chamex.com/c_pub/en/contact.php>.