How to Keep Your Feet Warm and Toasty
Boot Heaters:
If the old saying, “the greatest thing since sliced bread” applied to anything, it would be boot heaters. These nifty little gadgets are battery-powered heaters that can be installed in any ski boot. There are two brands of boot heaters on the market, one made by Thermic and another made by Hotronics. Both models work equally well and each comes with a set of rechargeable batteries that you clip on your boots. A wire then runs down inside of your boots between the shell and the liner to the warming disk that goes into the front of your ski boots inside the liner under your foot. You will need to make a small incision in the bottom of your liner to insert the wire, which isn’t a big deal at all.
The batteries will have multiple settings that will allow you to easily control the amount of heat you want your warmers to emit. The batteries will last all day, and may last up to 2 days between charges depending on the setting you choose.
Both my wife and I have these heaters in our ski boots and couldn’t imagine skiing without them. Our feet are never cold even on the coldest days of the winter. There is nothing worse than skiing with cold, numb feet. An additional great feature of boot heaters is that they can be easily transferred from one pair of boots to another. If you get new ski boots you can just take your boot heaters off of your old pair and set them up on your new pair. Or if you want to attach them to a pair of regular outdoor boots, you can do that as well. I did this numerous times when my son was ski racing and I was often standing out on the slopes for up to 8 hours. The cold temperatures would come up through the bottom of my after ski boots and make for some miserable days. More...
