Quicksand Fans

This week and last I made my first trips of the year to my favorite quarry. Needless to say the mud is pretty cold yet. Most of my body was okay but my toes were freezing. I found on Amazon a lot of selections of thermal swim socks which I figure will help. Anyone ever try these for mudding?

Not sure if this applies to muddy, but a general principle for staying warm is, "If your feet are cold, put on a hat." The principle is based on the observation that when heat is being lot your feet get cold because circulation is withdrawn so as to conserve heat for the more vital body core, and a major place when heat is lost is through the head. Not sure if this correlates with being "full of hot air" or not. lol Or maybe with being "full of shit in th case of someone being a general shithead.

I bought a pair of those from a sporting goods store. They do help (not just with insulation but they keep your feet from getting cut). They were neoprene. But they were really difficult for me to get on and off.

A muddy friend mailed me a pair of diving booties. These had a rubbery sole in addition to the neoprene. They were a bit smaller than my shoe size but they worked well anyway. They stretched, while the thermal socks didn't.

When I started filming, they were lent out to all four of my actresses.

I wish I knew what brand they were now.

Nessie

For me this type is enough: https://aliexpress.ru/item/33046469691.html
You need a size to be a little tight, othervise you can lost it in the mud. It's simple to get on/off, and it's much warmer then do things barefeet. This type is enough in all cases other then when you need to brake thin ice with it, because ankles are not protected from scratches. It may be a problem because ice starts to cast on the top of mud really fast if the temperature falls under 0C after sunset.
But need to say that basically it seems not to be a big problem to train feets tolerate 0C temperatures barefoot. At least for me much a bigger problems are hands. I had a nice mudding in the spring mudfield few days ago (with cheap 1.5 mm neoprene swimsuite it's surprisingly simple and comfort), but it was really cold for my fingers and then cleanup in cold water was a lot of pain. So now I thinking about neoprene gloves. In the same time it was relatively comfort to walk in this mud barefeet knee-deep after I overcome first tens of meters and accomodated it.
Interesting mud experince, very nice mud texture, neopren makes you a kind of temperature superman heh. Always wished to try this spring muddy ploughed fields but afraid it's too cold to do whole-body. Only tested it barefeet or aquasocks many times before.