Warm, comfortable socks

[Gerald_G]

Nice Cave/Igloo. Who sleeps in it? Last Winter a friend and I decided we wanted to sleep in a snow cave. We went out to a field and had to dig up a huge pile by ourselves, and then we dug the cave out of that. Was awesome

Me and my boys slept in it. It's an actual igloo made from bricks of snow, not a hollowed out cave in a pile. I built a snow brick mold, and we made the bricks, and stacked them up like that.

I have another tip, whenever I sleep out in cold like that I always have a pair of extra thick wool, loose fitting socks for sleeping in the sleeping bag. That way I always have perfectly dry feet in bed. (dry=warm)

 

[Doc4]

And Doc4 is right, you usually don't need very thick socks unless it's very cold. However, this is very individual, and from what I understood from Defend Tacoma, he actually does work in a pretty cold environment because a big wind draft and air humidity plays in. Wind is such a killer even if it's only slightly cold.

I was thinking of the OP's comment about being uncomfortable cramming thicker socks into his regular footwear. Of course, only one 'thickness' of socks will feel comfortable with a given pair of footwear, so my thought was to show him how he can keep his feet warm without resorting to massively thick socks: keep the foot comfort/fit, and not have to buy new winter-only footwear just to fit the thicker socks.

In my experience, including some very cold winters, proper dressing from the shin up has keept my feet just fine in most situations, and wearing footwear that is boot-ish in height kept my feet and ankles protected from the wind ... so if you are properly dressed for the conditions from the ankle up, your feet will be fine in 'most' conditions.

But Rossmeister is correct: you do need to make your winter response a very individual one, and if the conditions you find yourself in call for more protection, then by all means do it!!