 Poster: A snowHead
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As a skiing donut, I have no real idea what I'm doing, but the one thing I am sure about, me feet n hands sure get cold! buying heat pads is one solution, but once my kids feet have got cold, they give up. What do I put on their feet to delay the cold? would silk socks be the way forward?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Don't know what socks, but loosen your boots on the lifts and wiggle your toes a bit to keep the circulation going.
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biskum, welcome to Snowheads. Are you talking about you own feet or someone else's? Do you have your own boots?
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Yeah, salomon ones, size 13! ( who said size don't matter) we've all got our own gear................but it don't stop our feet gettin cold! 
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socks in general would probably help!!! 
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ski socks is the answer. wool ones.
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Well wool socks do help, but some people just get cold feet, no matter what they do. Make sure your boots are not compressing the blood vessels across the top of your feet. Mine are usually OK but when it's really cold (minus 10 and below) they do suffer, and I have invested in heated insoles which are great.
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Under floor heating in your boots is pretty good, down to about -20 my feet are good but below they suffer so they come in handy.
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pam w, How do they work, where can I get some before 4th December and are theyreally expensive, also is there anything you should do to ensure boot fit is not compromised?
M'Lady gets cold feet and this has a negative effect on how long she can spend on the hill!
Merci
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biskum, thin socks, I've gone off shmanzy ones altogether and now just wear long cotton socks and save a load of money. So long as my boots are dry in the morning, no problem 
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Kaiser, can give you some quick info.. a heating element sticks upder your toes and a wire is run under the insole and out the back of a hole cut in the liner, then up the back of the boot between the shell and liner. This plugs into a battery pack at the top of the boot which clips on. Can be transferred from boot to boot.
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arv, I reckon that could be just the ticket, if people say it works, then I suppose money ceases to be an issue!
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Kaiser, Yeh they do the job, maybe snow and rock? If you can get them cheaper fit em yourself as they are easy to do-if you need some guidance with the fitting i will take some photos of mine... but it really is very straight forward.
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You know it makes sense.
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I suffer really badly from cold feet. Have boot warmers and love them
Gryphea
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Kaiser, Intersport in Bourg were selling boot heaters last season, the Hotronic model I think. I've used them in the past and they do a good job - not so much keeping your feet warm and toasty, but stopping them from getting frozen.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Aldi Suisse had some really cheap heated insoles last week. Might be worth searching the net to see if you can find those. A third of the price of Hottronics version...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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flowa, cotton is the single worst fibre you can wear if you get cold feet, it is a non intellegent fibre and holds any moisture next to the skin, man made fibre works by relying on heat to push moisture from somewhere warm [the foot] to somewhere cold [outside] if the foot is cold in the first place then it will not shift the moisture, this is where wool will suck the moisture away from the foot without the need for heat, it can then store it [up to a 1/3 of its weight without feeling damp] until it can be released as vapour
making sure the boots and the feet are warm and dry before you put the boots on is critical any dampness will multiply the speed at which the body cools by some 23 times
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Kaiser, they are called Thermic. Mine are fitted into my custom insole so they don't need to compromise boot fit at all. It requires cutting a small slit in the liner (Stanley knife job) so needs a bit of confidence. One of my battery pack leads had become damaged and I consequently had to buy a new pair and CEM fitted the new one into my existing insoles when he was doing some other work on my boot (to reduce heel lift - and it worked great!).
There's an old type of battery pack which uses actual batteries and is a pain. Most are rechargeable. Not that cheap..... but having cold feet just ruins your day. The last ones I bought were in Lockwoods, the first lot in Filarinskis in Havant. In both cases I had the bootfitter fit them for me though it wouldn't be too difficult to fit your own. If you take your boots into somewhere that sells them they'd probably fit them for you. Probably most places that sell boots will sell Thermic warmers.
There are three heat settings and they last less long on the highest setting, naturally enough, but you only need a very, very, small amount of heat to do the job. You're not aware of a "hot water bottle effect" but your feet don't get cold. At least, mine don't, though I think some very bad sufferers still have a problem.
Be aware of potential problem of cutting off blood supply by having too tight boots across the top of the foot, too - worth asking a bootfitter's advice on that. It was certainly a problem for me, some years ago, in boots which were too big so I was cranking them up too tight across the foot - problem diagnosed in Filarinskis in Havant.
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Another good thing is to start the morning with dry warm boots - a boot dryer is nice thing to have and you can get electric ones that leave the boots nice and warm too - if you start with warm dry boots I think you will stay warmer for longer
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Appreciate all the advice chaps, I think I will do a cruise of the local sport shops and see how they compare to Nevada in Tignes, but this is clearly the way ahead for this season if I am to ski with M'Lady, otherwise it's going to be moaning and sulking all the way 
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From reading your general information, it seems Merino wool socks is the way to go (like the idea of boot heaters, but 3 sets aint gonna be cheap). There are some mega ones on Ebay supa thick n 80% wool at £15 a pair, tell me all you whizzkids, are you using merino rich socks? are there a particular brand that is better than others?
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mega ones on Ebay supa thick
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depends how well your ski boots fit. If they're a good fit, mega thick chunky socks are out of the question. But I did wear some thickish merino wool rich socks under my old boots - whatever brand I could get cheap in T K Maxx.
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Have you tired wearing a hat/helmet?
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Have you tired wearing a hat/helmet?
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Yes.............................how's that gonna help me feet?
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pam w, I also have the thermic ones - they were a godsend in Canada last year. However did you find that sometimes the switch got knocked across from, say, 1 up to 3? I ended up having to put a bit of duck tape across the top to stop it happening.
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Have you tired wearing a hat/helmet?
Yes.............................how's that gonna help me feet?
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I believe the theory is that, without headwear, more heat is lost from the head and so more blood is supplied there to keep it warm, thereby potentially denying an adequate supply to the extremities - so they get cold. Or something like that. I'm sure someone will probably correct me soon enough.
Since I started wearing a helmet, I have never once had cold feet (including at minus 30C temps).
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Now there's a theory!, lucky you, me n kids have got it all on, n still our feet get cold
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Just a theory, and I'm sure I will be shouted down, but I am renowned for cold feet, and when I ski I never have cold feet in the situation you would most expect me to suffer from them. Could you have your boots done up too tight and therefore be disrupting the circulation to your toes?
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You know it makes sense.
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P.S. Try Tchibo and Lidl for ski socks
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However did you find that sometimes the switch got knocked across from, say, 1 up to 3?
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Yes. I also had one of the little wires that slots into the battery packed ripped out - hence having to buy a new pair. CEM said it was probably an altercation with a chair lift seat. I can see that they're a mighty expensive solution for a family.
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Poster: A snowHead
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ok, back to shmanzy for me then 