Start from the ground up. The first thing you want to do is get good boots,'' says Dayna Barron-Stagg, a skier for more than 30 years and a member of the Santa Rosa Ski Club.
Boots are the single most important piece of equipment or clothing.
Everything else comes after. Sort of like the boots are the foundation,'' Barron-Stagg says. The standard evolution for winter sports participants begins with rentals. We cater to the beginner,'' says Mike Sutliff, owner of The Rental Place. A lot of people just getting into snow sports have nothing, not even gloves.