Keeping your feets warm at Night

[partinj]

Hi everone my feet get cold when i am sleeping not a big at home i just put on a pair of old wool socks i have. I was thinking about bring them with me. What to you folks do to help keep your feets warm at night Thank

[Egads]

I wear a hat, & oversize wool socks or down booties. Keep your socks loose so you don't constrict the blood flow in your feet.

[littlelaurel59]

I HATE cold feet! I have a special pair of "sleep socks." Nice fluffy wool socks that are not used for hiking. That way they stay fluffy and dry. Sometimes, I stick my feet inside a fleece jacket for extra warmth. Since I use a 3/4 pad on the ground in the winter, I put my pack under my feet for insulation from the ground.

[CrumbSnatcher]

Hi everone my feet get cold when i am sleeping not a big at home i just put on a pair of old wool socks i have. I was thinking about bring them with me. What to you folks do to help keep your feets warm at night Thank

boil some water,let it cool off for a few minutes,pour the water into a nalgene or water bottle with a good sealable lid, throw the bottle into your sleeping bag down by your feet. great hot water bottle. being inside your insulated sleeping bag allows the heat from the bottle to slowly release, lasting a few hours

[The Will]

I keep a pair of "sacred" socks in the same stuff sack as my sleeping bag. These are only used for sleeping. Always dry. Nice to look forward to on a cold night or after a day of wet slogging.

[Mercy]

Down booties... weigh about two oz more than if I kept a pair of designated socks...

[mikec]

Iron Oxide hand warmers. Throw one or two in your bag and it will warm up by 10 degrees.

[Kanati]

When preparing for my hike with began 3/1 I talked to a young from MS State Univ who had thru'd in 07. He told me to be sure and carry sleeping socks. I hadn't though about it till then. So I took his advice and it was a smart move. I never used these socks for anything but sleeping and they stayed inside my sleeping bag until I wasshed them with my other things. I also carried a very light, almost silk weight polyester insulated underwear. These too always stayed packed inside my sleeping bag. Several times I was glad I had them.

Enjoy your hike.

[SGT Rock]

Wool socks. Shelters were littered last year with those chemical warmers. If you can pack em in, please pack em out.

[smokymtnsteve]

make sure your socks are dry...even socks that are just a little damp actually makes your feet colder than no socks at all.

[Marta]

Ditto with the sleeping socks and the hot-water-Nalgene. If my feet are cold when I put on my sleeping socks, they never will warm up on their own. I've got to warm them by some other means.

If you go the hot-water-Nalgene route, after you fill it and screw on the top, turn it upside down and shake it a bit. If it drips at all, dry it off, tighten, and test it again. You really, really don't want it to leak in your sleeping bag.

[Rambler]

I, too, carry a pair of socks that are only used around camp and to bed when necessary.

[Farr Away]

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If you go the hot-water-Nalgene route, after you fill it and screw on the top, turn it upside down and shake it a bit. If it drips at all, dry it off, tighten, and test it again. You really, really don't want it to leak in your sleeping bag.

Also wouldn't be a bad idea to put the nalgene in a ziploc. Can't hurt.

[bigcranky]

Dry wool socks. Add down booties if it's below about 15-F overnight.

[Blissful]

The Acorn polartec socks are nice too.

[Marta]

During real winter (January qualifies, even though I'm talking about North Carolina), I bring a pair of Smartwool thick socks, plus a pair of Acorn fleece socks to go over them. One of these years I might spring for down booties.

[Panzer1]

The Acorn polartec socks are nice too.

Yea, I have a pair of them. You can walk around in them too because they have a light weight soul of sorts on the bottom.
But they are heavier than socks.

Panzer

[Gaiter]

button up my down vest put it over the end of my sleeping bag, gives a little more coverage for my feet, won't work for you skinny minnies
yaaah multi-functional

[ChinMusic]

I've been cold in a sleeping bag before but I don't remember my feet being cold. I always sleep barefoot. I carry down booties in winter but take them off once it's time for bed.

I never realized others were different.

[Johnny Swank]

Spare socks, hot water bottle, and rain pants over my feet have down the trick. I also put my pack, and any other insulation under my legs and feet to get them off the ground. I also took neoprene socks for the last month of my SOBO thru-hike, but those got pretty juicy after a few days. Warm though.