Anthony O

Scarpa states a wider last. Hard to tell for me as discussed it is essentially the next shell size up. If I had to guess for the same shell bsl it might be a proportionally a smidge bigger. The Quattro is about as low volume as it gets.

Is this a stiffer boot than the kilo? Don't need a race boot, just curious if the carbon makes this just a more responsive kilo, ie kilo pro, rather than stratos step down. Looking for performance comparison as well to f1 xt against both this and the kilo.

I would say it's close enough. The difference imo between those two boots as far as skiing goes will entirely boil down to fit. The absolute stiffness is there. The tecnica is more progressive from memory whereas the ridge is more immediately stiff.

What's the ramp on these?

Camber doesn't make a ski more versatile and skinning uphill in ice isnt much harder, it just requires more precise balance and better skinning technique. Anyone who has practiced it can go up any slope that folks on a cambered ski can. I think complaining about skinning capabilities of full rocker skis is entirely a hobby of folks with little or no experience skinning (or skiing for that matter) with them. They aren't popular just because most people want concessions for resort skiing, not because of lack ...