i've been workin' outside all summer an probably will be all winter.. ( mommy help me)<br /><br />it's been a chilly fall here.. gettin'colder each week.. an when it rains it's a steady alldayer.. <br /><br />ain't much like high 30's /low 40's a rain..<br /><br />i've got good stuff.. guys' at work can't get over the good gear i got..( wait till they get aload of my 12 volt heated vest.. just ain't cold enuff yet )<br /><br />GORE-TEX..........<br /><br />is it just me..!! but this junk ain't the answer..<br /><br />take boots.. i have a pair of cabelas 'outfitter' boots.. gore-tex..an in wet manholes for minutes or hours ,, feet that went in bone dry,, come out D A M P.<br /><br />an damp equates to cold ..<br /><br />sure/granted,, the boots don't fill up with water... but damp is damp.. <br /><br />got a pair of cabelas 50 buck kangaroo leather thinsulate gore-tex hand shoes .<br /><br />worst 50 bucs i ever spent.. worthless,, just worthless.. <br /><br />i know when i had the first generation nu-buck timberlines.. the silicone impregregnated ones.. stand in water all day an feet bone dry.. <br /><br />the reason i got the cabelas 'outfitter' boots ..was they are made outta 'pittard' leather.. PERMENATELY each fiber waterproof.. <br /><br />BBBBBBSSSSSSSS...!!!!! wish i was a lawyer for a day...!!! i'd be owin' that company..!!!<br /><br />it sucks in a major way.. in a weeks time,, on top at the bridge/hinge of boot it breaks down a leather becames wet.. shortly after the whole boot leather becomes wet.. <br /><br />SURE,,,, IT'S GORE-TEX-ed...!!!!<br /><br />now what ya have is a heavy wet soaked boot..with wet ridin'right next to the gore-tex .. <br /><br />sure,, the boot ain't fillin' up with water... but your foots major damp.. <br /><br />an damp equated to along miserable cold day a work..