Everyone should experience walking in fresh, cold snow in down booties once in their lives. Hard to describe this wonderful feeling.

We always bring down booties camping in the winter, they are our second pair of shoes.

Friends once made fun of my booties, so I took them to a wood-heated log cabin in the dead of winter (upstate NY) for a weekend. By the end they were fighting over my one pair.

For just warmth, not walking around in, we sometimes bring down socks.

I use Integral Designs Hot Socks (4.7oz, Large) and Tyvek overboots (1oz) with Walmart blue foam inserts (2oz) for winter camping where temps will not go below the teens and keep comfortable. For temps down to freezing or just below, I'll use the overboots without foam inserts and keep plenty warm. I take off the overboots and sleep in the Hot Socks. Works well and pretty cheap plus no down to wet out.

That said, I'd certainly prefer the Forty Below or Feathered Friends booties at anything in the single digits or below Fahrenheit.

I love my Nunatak quilts but the Nunatak booties feel like they have no support when you walk in them. You can walk around in fairly deep snow with the FF booties. The sole is very tough and the Epic fabric is worry free. I got mine in the cool pumpkin orange.

The booties I have were made by Exit, weigh 10 oz, have tough cordura soles with a built in closed-cell foam footbed and ripstop nylon uppers. Because it doesn't get that cold here in the tropical PNW I seldom use them, but in Montana where it's commonly below zero I wouldn't think of heading for the hills without my booties. BTW the rough textured cordura helps with traction in the snow and a little bit of Granger's DWR helps with water repellentcy. No doubt about it, down booties are one of the coveted creature comforts when it's cold!

This is probably the first time Wiggy's products have EVER been associated with ultralite. However, I think they got a home run on this one. The lamelite insulation is great. Just used them on the last snowshoeing trip with my wife. With temps ranging from 15 down to -15 degrees F at night on the last trip these booties are super nice to sleep in. Especially when nature calls in the middle of the night ;). Super compact and my sz large weigh in at 8 oz and my wife's smalls are a shade under 6.5 oz. Anyways worth a look.

We will be doing another 3 overnight snowshoeing trip and anticipate temps in the -20s F at night and you better believe we will be bringing these along.

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