I live in Missouri and I need a place to fit me with a new pair of double wall mountaineering boots or custom liners. I currently have Koflach degrees but I have a terible heal lift problem with them and get some pretty massive blisters on both feet, from the heel lift and secondly because my right foot slides back and forth a bit because of at least a half-sive+ differnce between my feet. I am open to a road trip since any shop in the midwest pretty much has to special order anything and then they pretty much know nothing about fitting them.
Thanks, Andrew

Andrew,

Fitting custom liners is much more common these days, than previously. About 12 years ago, I had my first plastics fit with thermofit liners. The person fitting my boots had a broken thumb, and sent me over to the local (experienced) ski shop, who fit them just fine. Those liners are still going (outlasting the shell), and have been the best for my hard-to-fit feet. They totally rock (especially for multi-day trips), so you're doing the right thing.

Find someone (ski or mountaineering shop) who has done a good number of these (like a hundred), and I think you'll do fine. The Intuition liners made for the mountaineering boots are probably the way to go.

If you happen make it out to Boulder, try and schedule an appointment with Chuck Byrd at Neptune Mountaineering; he'll set you up right.

Cheers.

Or Larry the Bootfitter in Boulder. The name says it all. He's amazing.

Thanks I will look into those, I will probably be going out to CO later this fall/winter anyways!

Yeah I have custom footbeds from a doctor but he said that my feet were different sizes, I got them though because I have high arches. However, they didn't keep my small foot from slidding around actually making the blisters worse because I got a blister were the arch support is along with the back of the heel due to heal lift, talked to the doctor about this because I thought maybe the arch was too high but he said that it was because the foot slid around... Don't really want to buy two pairs of boots for two differnt sizes, intuition liners said that their liners should solve the problem but I would need an experianced person to fit them. I was also thinking about different boots even because I had a slight heal lift even on the properlly fitting foot because of an inadequate method of acually locking the foot down with the laces...