[Demi9OD]

The Thraxis liner sucks IMO. I had hot spots around my ankle and especially where the Conda boa attached internally. I swapped the liner with one from the Nidecker Talon, which doesn't have those ankle windows, and had no hotspots for my week in Colorado.

The other thing I did with the BOA Conda is place an under armour wrist sweat band under the top half of the plastic piece. Now when cranked down the pressure is more evenly distributed on the ankle and top of foot. I need to have it cranked down to keep my toes from jamming on heel side carves.

My technique for tightening these boots is foot in, drop kick the ground, crank Conda, loosely tighten top and bottom boa, boot in binding, crank ankle strap, then tighten lower boot boa until I barely feel it. The lower boot boa being too tight has been the only thing causing me pain, and I find using a cranked binding strap as the reference point for lower boot tightening has worked well. Finally, tighten the upper boa for your preference of response versus tweakability.