# Backcountry ski boot update

**URL:** <https://discourse.accvi.ca/t/backcountry-ski-boot-update/97>\
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**Created:** [23 November 2020 20:52 UTC](https://discourse.accvi.ca/t/backcountry-ski-boot-update/97 "2020-11-23T20:52:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![administrator](https://discourse.accvi.ca/user_avatar/discourse.accvi.ca/administrator/32/538_2.png) [@administrator](https://discourse.accvi.ca/u/administrator)\
**Post date:** [23 November 2020 20:52 UTC](https://discourse.accvi.ca/t/backcountry-ski-boot-update/97/1 "2020-11-23T20:52:59Z")

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Just an update for people trying to acquire new backcountry ski gear. I just went to Coastal Ski in Victoria and they are out of almost every size of boot (esp if you have larger feet (29) as I do …).

The orders are placed in March, factories in Europe produce gear in the summer, and by late summer / early Fall it arrives and starts to get sold.

Sure hope all these new folks getting out into the backcountry know their avalanche safety skills!

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**Author:** ![mhofmannskis](https://discourse.accvi.ca/user_avatar/discourse.accvi.ca/mhofmannskis/32/276_2.png) [@mhofmannskis](https://discourse.accvi.ca/u/mhofmannskis)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2020 21:52 UTC](https://discourse.accvi.ca/t/backcountry-ski-boot-update/97/2 "2020-11-24T21:52:19Z")

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I’m  
I’m not sure that they are:

> **[Rescue crews worried about more distress calls this winter as sports gear...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rescue-crews-worried-about-more-distress-calls-this-winter-as-sports-gear-flies-off-the-shelves-1.5813334)**
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> Search and rescue crews in B.C. are worried about a repeat of this summer in B.C. when hiking and camping gear sold out as people rushed to the outdoors and there were a record number of calls for help.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_G](https://discourse.accvi.ca/user_avatar/discourse.accvi.ca/peter_g/32/100_2.png) [@Peter\_G](https://discourse.accvi.ca/u/Peter_G)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2020 22:04 UTC](https://discourse.accvi.ca/t/backcountry-ski-boot-update/97/3 "2020-11-24T22:04:03Z")

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I can’t say I have much faith in folks this winter.

> **[Ill-prepared hikers, one in shorts, rescued from snowy North Shore mountain |...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/north-shore-rescue-mount-fromme-three-hikers-1.5812695)**
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> A trio of ill-prepared hikers was rescued off Mount Fromme in North Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday evening.

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**Author:** ![administrator](https://discourse.accvi.ca/user_avatar/discourse.accvi.ca/administrator/32/538_2.png) [@administrator](https://discourse.accvi.ca/u/administrator)\
**Post date:** [28 November 2020 21:54 UTC](https://discourse.accvi.ca/t/backcountry-ski-boot-update/97/4 "2020-11-28T21:54:11Z")

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Oh man… although I think I read similar stories every year about the North Shore.