I'm an advocate of wearing light running shoes and getting wet feet which will dry out by the end of the day.

Imagine that I've posted a gruesome close up image of toenail fungus. I won't though, because that's unwarranted.

I heard on Science Friday that each of us is an ecosystem... just doing my bit for diversity!

For snow conditions, the bread bags go inside the shoes/boots, in order to protect from wetness and to provide additional insulation.

Growing up in Chicago, this is essential survival information.

I'm the only one I know who gets a newspaper delivered. But the newspaper bags are even better for this. No bread crumbs.

But the breadcrumbs absorb the sweat.

There's got to be a good hacking joke in there somewhere, but I can't come up with one right now.

I have one of those Landsend shoes that's water-repellent, but they look like sneakers rather than boots. I like the look of these Muck boots though. They look light.


If you swing over to my place, you can use mine. Heck, if needed, I'll even hook up the Beta VCR. :D

One winter working offshore, some AH told me to put plastic bags on feet before boots, yea right. F@#King feet sweated and like to have froze.

There are cases of people wearing plastic bags inside their boots (or shoes), over their socks, successfully staying off incapacitating foot injury long enough to walk to safety through severe cold environments. While moisture from perspiration does accumulate to make socks and feet wet, the bags also trap enough body heat to keep feet from freezing for as long as a person remains active enough to generate sufficient body heat. That's why parents without other readily available means can use plastic bags to protect active children outside, for short periods of time, in cold (especially cold-wet) weather as long as they are brought back inside soon after their activity level drops. At lesser activity levels there will not be enough body heat generated and trapped inside the bags to offset the cooling effects of the trapped moisture. If I were forced to transition from high activity to low activity while using the plastic bag expedient, I would, if possible (which isn't likely), relocate the bags under my wet socks so that my skin would be protected from direct contact with ice crystals if the wet socks froze. The socks would go back on though; because, even wet socks may have insulation value depending on the material.

You could wring the socks out and drink the water.

That's what glove liners are for. :eyebrow:


Lay the wet socks out flat to freeze and you can throw them like boomerangs (doesn't work with tube socks).

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Don't take it personally if linlishan doesn't thank you for posting that information.

Okay, next winter one of you snow-dwelling northerners are going to have to do the experiment. Two feet, two socks, two shoes ... but only one bread bag. Randomly allocate the bag to one foot, place it between sock and shoe, go for a walk in the snow and slush. Report back.
If you have super sensitive scales you could even weigh the socks to see if they're different.