Posted: 9/18/2011 8:23:17 AM EDT
| Its about that time of year again, and after moving to Minnesota, i decided i need a dedicated pair of snow boots. i was thinking about the mil surplus bunny boots as they can be found for cheap and could supplement my danner hiking boots. I read reviews of the sorels and la crosse pac boots but alot of the reviews show poor quality. i would like to know what everyone uses for snow/winter boots. |
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Bunny boots are really good, the black ones are best for temps down to -10F or a bit less, the white ones are good a ways past that.
A lot of people really like the Baffin boots, they seem pretty decent. If you want a ghetto way of stay warm for a day or two, wear a thin dress sock, then a bread bag, then a wool sock or two in some boots. You will stay toasty as long as you don't fit everything so tight it cuts off the circulation. The bread bag keeps your perspiration out of the insulating layer(s), and they stay a lot warmer. |
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For normal winter use: Sorrel pack boots
For fall, early winter wet weather hunting: LaCrosse knee high rubber hunting boots For deep snow and dry bitter cold: Wellco military Mukluks (Steigers work also but are $$$$) A liner sock with a wool sock is still the best combo. And as others have said, loose is better than tight if you want to stay warm. And if you plan on stomping around in the woods this winter, get some snowshoes or **wide** CC skis. Knee high snow will smoke you soooo fast if you don't have them. |
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thanks for the great info. but i still cant make up my mind on what i should get as an all purpose pair of snow boots. really no such thing, depends on the weather conditions. With that said I love my Danner Striker II GTX's THESE I think I found them for $160 somewhere, can't remember. They are great with a good liner and wool sock down around 30* comfortably being inactive, and any sort of hiking further past that. I love the fact they are easier to take on and off and will withstand pretty much anything. Great all around cold weather boot. For below freezing temps THESE are awesome. You get what you pay for IMO, and Danners are hard to beat |
| The military cold weather boots are king for the money. I did a winter camp in the guard where it was -22f and didn't have any problems. Since the guard in MN doesn't have a cold weather mission, most had to wear their civilian boots. I had my dads military ones and those of us who did, where the only ones not complaining. Back to the story, MN guard does issue extreme cold weather sleeping bags, but you do your two weeks in the summer. How dumb is that, this was early 90's so I don't know if that changed. |
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The military cold weather boots are king for the money. I did a winter camp in the guard where it was -22f and didn't have any problems. Since the guard in MN doesn't have a cold weather mission, most had to wear their civilian boots. I had my dads military ones and those of us who did, where the only ones not complaining. Back to the story, MN guard does issue extreme cold weather sleeping bags, but you do your two weeks in the summer. How dumb is that, this was early 90's so I don't know if that changed. A guy I worked with back in the late 70s was in the NG in Chicago. For reasons that never made a lot of sense to me they only issued him summer weight gear. He was an RTO, and one of the things he did was lay wire outdoors (actually that seemed to be pretty much all he did other than act as pack mule). They used to make him run wire outside in the snow in the winter. He always wore his street clothes because he had no issued gear that was warm enough. I think it was the same unit that had officers that were issued fake plastic pistols because they did not have any real ones. |