I’m going through all of last year’s gear, seeing what I can sell, and figured I’d write a quick entry about snowboard boots for kids, since we took a long time to find them.
My 7 year old started the year in some Burton rental boots – super comfy, but super soft and squishy and only held together with velcro. We’d bought them new from REI’s rental fleet in 2014, when REI in the Puget Sound area decided to get out of the rental game.
By Christmas it was obvious that his boots were holding him back – he was charging double blacks in a pair of bedroom slippers! So we went on the hunt for a good pair of boots.
I don’t remember all of the ones we tried – most size 2 boots were super soft and made for beginners; there was one pair that was crazy stiff; and then there were the ThirtyTwo Boa Kids boots – super comfy, stiff but not too stiff, and with a Boa closure (key for kids to be able to do up and adjust their own boots).
He outgrew them in half a season, but we’ll get the same ones this year (and now they’re last year’s model, so they’ll cost a bunch less).
Hope that helps!