Wet thermoform and gaiters

All good advice. I remove liners/footbeds, then place liners on a window sill (given dry weather) with the tops pointing out. It helps that I have wide sills and where I live is consistently breezy.

When I ski in shorts, I sometimes pull my socks over the tops of my boots. It sort of keeps snow out of your boots and kind of looks stupid.<br><br>Aaron

I bought a Mammut ski pant that is super light wgt. That has a velcro enclosure at the bottom cuff it fits over the boot. They have been worn on windy 25 degree days and on 65 degree days with all the comfort on either day no snow crammed in the boot. I recommend that set up. That way you don't have to wear long underware they have zip pockets and they feel great! AWESOME for spring tours! So for the combination costs of gaiters, long undies, and shorts you could almost buy those pants on sale. And furthermore avoid harrasment from the TAY BC Fashion Police.

Thanks for all the advice! I think that the boot drier is a great thing to have for more than just these ski boots.<br><br>I'll also check out the skiwear suggested, but I thought that the long underwear helped to hold my legs in a shapely way!<br><br>Alan

My approach is as follows.<br><br>Step 1:<br>- Wear Schoeller pants with cuffs that can fit over boot liners.<br><br>Step 2:<br>- Once back at trailhead, remove liners from shells and remove footbeds from lines.<br><br>Step 3:<br>- Once back home, place liners in plastic bags and then put in freezer for a couple hours (or outside if cold).  According to Eric Ongerth at Mammoth Mountaineering, this kills the odor-causing bacteria.  (I place them inside a plastic bag though so that the liner doesn't pick up any food smells.)  This approach also seemed to work well on a recent three-day/two-night trip: keeping the liners in the cold vestibule somehow seemed better than putting on a wet & warm boot in the morning.  (The initial coldness was overcome quickly, and a cold frozen boot somehow didn't seem as bad as a warm wet boot.)<br><br>Step 4:<br>- Set the timer and hook the liners up to this (can handle two pairs of liners simultaneously):<br> www.dryguy.net/PRD_DG1.htm
- Or, initially put on higher setting for about 10 minutes and then an hour or so on lower setting on this:
www.dryguy.net/PRD_DG5.htm
Alternatively, put on higher setting initially in your brother's South Lake Tahoe garage because your previous Thermoflex liners smelled so bad (from a couple incomplete drying episodes) that you don't dare bring them inside.  Then go to bed with sweet dreams of skiing perfect corn the next day.  Wake up in the middle of the night and realize that your boot dryers are still on the highest setting.  Stumble into garage in a panic and discover that they are just fine.  (The highest setting apparently isn't high enough to remold them.)

Steps Not to Follow:
1 = Do not place your liners to dry on your Tioga Pass Resort cabin's floor near where your wife might use the pee pot.  (She still thinks that this was hilariously funny.)
2 = Do not place your liners near your Tioga Pass Resort cabin's space heater, especially if you have put considerable effort into compacting the toe box as to create more room.