how to keep feet warm

DURING THE WINTER MONTHS ARE YOU TIRED OF HAVING COLD FEET?

There are many people who work in snow and ice conditions that have cold feet because they were sold a bill of goods about winter boots that just aren’t made for winter conditions regardless what the company making them claims. Generally these companies use Thinsulate in conjunction with Gore-Tex. A recipe for disaster!

The answer to the question of having warm feet was answered years ago when I started making mukluks and over boots.

Each of these items is available in normal materials and now I make them with flame retardant (FR) materials. The products that are made with the FR materials are an excellent choice for people who work in the oil fields of Alaska or the Canadian tar sands area of Canada. In both areas of these work sites the workers are out fitted in Nomex parkas and bibs. I know this because in Alaska Wiggy’s is by far the dominant supplier of these garments. I am sure the Canadian oil field workers are issued Nomex outerwear as well. It is not as good since they do not have Lamilite insulation in them. Now they too can get what the American oil field worker wears from Wiggy’s. They can also get cold weather foot wear. To the best of my knowledge oil field workers also must wear steel toed boots. When the temperature drops into the subzero temperature zone the steel does get cold and wearing my mukluks or over boots prevents that from happening so feet do stay comfortably warm.

Do you work on the flight line of any airline at an airport that gets cold weather like Minneapolis, or Chicago, or Anchorage in Alaska and so many more that are smaller than those mentioned where having warm feet would certainly make life easier on the job.

If you are a hunter, getting into a duck blind or a tree stand reduces your movements so those expensive hunting boots prove how inefficient they are at keeping feet warm, I have heard this for years, but the mukluks or overboots solve your problem because they will keep your feet warm.

Of course wearing the Lamilite socks also makes a considerable difference. I also believe having warm feet goes a long way to helping the rest of the body stay warmer. The primary reason I say that is because keeping your feet warm means that the blood flow back to the heat is warm. Now when you have cold feet it is because there are no muscles in our feet to create heat. It is muscle mass that creates heat. This is why when your feet start to get cold the chilling process speeds up and there is no way to reverse the process other than to move into a heated area.

I have a question for ALL of the companies that manufacture boots that are referred to as insulated cold weather boots, why they do not know what I know? I know this because the information is readily available on the internet, of course they are much younger than me so they probably either do not know how to read or if they can read they have no ability to comprehend what they are reading.

The other aspect of these boot manufacturing companies that I just don’t understand is why they do not go into the bush when it is cold to discover for themselves that what they are selling does not work. Probably because they do not go into the bush ever or they already know their boots are a sham or do not want cold feet.

When you keep experiencing cold feet they become more susceptible to becoming cold sooner that before you had cold feet in the first place. Isn’t it nice to know that the boot manufacturing companies are helping to make sure their customers have cold feet? Isn’t it comforting to know that the many retailers are profiting as well from their customers lack of comfort?

So the only reality you can count on so now you know that the use of the mukluks or over boots will override the failure of those expensive none performing boots.

The over boots are good to -30/35 degrees and the mukluks are good for as cold as it can get on the planet.

Warm feet are happy feet!!!