The owner operator of Thotic shops at the Four Mountain Sports location in Snowmass Village, CO, Rafferty has been a slopeside boot fitter and Pedorthist for more than 45 years. He concentrates primarily on wintersports athletes, but is also deeply involved in many other sports and has fabricated custom orthotics and footbeds for many professional and amateur athletes. Rafferty works closely with the orthopedic surgeons at the Steadman Hawkins clinic in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. He has been a senior instructor with Masterfit University since the late 1990s and has participated in the annual America’s Best Bootfitters/Masterfit/SKI Magazine boot test for more than 30 years.
Rafferty has seen pretty much everything and every configuration of foot in his long career. His legendary, “strange and unusual” case history of foot problems in sports footwear is a must-attend breakout at Masterfit University.
He comes from a lineage of semi pro hockey players/coaches from the “Slapshot” era. While he lives for winter, he placates himself in summer rowing hundreds of miles in his self-designed catamaran.
Lange RS140/Head Raptor 140/DalebootVFF Pro
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Sea Cucumber, because Platypus was already taken.
Ski Patrollers are Heros. Mentors, too many to list.
Seek out the most qualified boot fitter, don't skimp on cost, work through the process. It takes a certain amount of patience to gain the best possible fit in terms of comfort and performance.
