Skischuhtrockner

Who cannot relate? You wake up in the morning full of anticipation for a day of skiing, put on your ski boots and... urgh! Cold, clammy boots, accompanied by a smell that rivals ripe mountain cheese. After a long day on the board or boards, your boots are damp from sweat or snow. The perfect breeding ground for odour! Some people may celebrate this smell as a sign of frequent use, but nobody is really happy about it. Ski boot dryers provide a remedy for this.

Skiing, especially in combination with ski touring, can be a sweat-inducing sport. After a long day on the mountain, the long-awaited boot change from ski boots to more comfortable and dry street boots takes place. It is not uncommon for the path to the nearest shoe-drying heat source to be several hours away by train or car and who doesn't know it: the appetising smell that resembles a mixture of Appenzeller cheese and a well-stocked après-ski bar.

No matter whether it's a ski boot, snowboard boot, hiking boot or whatever boot, if the boot is wet on the day of use, it will be unpleasant. For this reason, even the Neanderthals are said to have made sure that only the best and driest material was used for hunting boots soled with sequoia bark. I don't know whether this is actually the case, but my own experience shows that a dry boot in the morning is much more comfortable and sometimes also warmer.