Cold, wet feet in winter feels like a boot problem. So you buy a better boot. Then a warmer one. Then insulated pac boots at a hundred and eighty dollars, and by February your socks are still wet.
Here's what's actually happening.
Snow doesn't come through your boot. It comes in over the top. You step into anything deeper than your ankle and snow drops down into the gap between your pant leg and the boot collar. It packs in there, sits against your body heat, and melts. Now there's water inside a boot no amount of insulation can help.
Shovelling does the same thing from above — everything coming off the blade lands on your boot tops.
And once your socks are wet at 20 degrees, that's it. Done for the afternoon. Cold feet aren't a comfort problem past 55, they're the reason you cut the job short, go inside, and leave the walkway half cleared.
You don't need a better boot. You need to close the hole.