2023 Tecnica Cochise130 Ski Boot Review - The ultimate all mountain ski boot

After carefully examining these ski boots I can confirm that these things absolutely shred!
If you have the cash ($800 for the 130's) and are in the market for a very versatile, high performance ski boot you cannot go wrong with the Cochise.
Race boot performance on the way down with tons of great features for ski touring. These are some of the best ski boots available on the market today.
The Cochise line comes in a 130, 120 110 flex for men and in the women's model they come in a 115, 110, 105, 95 and 85.
If you are looking for an even lighter boot that is more oriented toward big ski touring missions then check out the Zero G line up from Tecnica.

[@ronaldp4]

nice review!

[@DanegermanVisuals]

thank you Ron

[@bjornolavsjogren]

I’m also interested in how you cook these lines. My Hoji liners worked nice in 120°C for 10 minutes in a convection oven as do most Intuition liners. But I fail to find out how to heat the Cochise liners. When I google it, they is one link saying 80°C/176F for 8 minutes on the Google site, but when I click the link it takes me to Technica start page.

[@nightasday111]

Would you like to tell me what is about the temperature of heating molds and how long about it？thank you very much.

[@DanegermanVisuals]

I went to a technica dealer and did it in the shop.

[@Benzknees]

Nice boots & review, but they look like occasional tourers at that weight & ROM. Also based on my Atomic Hawx Ultras, I don't think I'd get a touring boot with gripwalk again. The AFD interface gets way too marked up if climbing up rocky faces.

[@DanegermanVisuals]

Yeah, more of a performance down hill boot. but they perform great on the up hills too!

[@torreyintahoe]

They're only a couple oz heavier than anything else in their class. My size 29 are 4.7 lb each.

[@mettflow2648]

nice boot, narrow af though, you don't want to climb anything more technical in gripwalk..., imo better boot is dynafit hoji free in this category...

[@DanegermanVisuals]

This boot definetly leans towards ski performance over touring performance. Thats what I like

[@mettflow2648]

@@DanegermanVisuals have you skied the hoji free? imo it is as stiff/stiffer with very nice flex progression, all around better boot than cochise... fit can be a bit of a bitch athough nothing custom skelet molding cannot fix

[@DanegermanVisuals]

@@mettflow2648 I have not tried the hoji free. It looks great though. I love how the walk mode loosens all the buckles. that's genius.

[@fernandog.aguirre2791]

I just returned ...their claim 99 mm last and feels way wider than that, the toe box is too big too.......

[@peterkovach8655]

Agreed. It's more like a 101mm.