Mikey, I had forgot about those little polypropolene sock liners.. I had picked up about four pair of those for my elk trip, but hadn't used them since.

After seeing one of the above posters mention them, I dug them out and put them on first last night before I pulled my big knee-high wool socks over them... I really feel it helped considerably just by adding those little liners.

That is... until I was trying to take a shortcut back to my Jeep last night... I figured I could cut off a 1/4 of a mile of walking if I could just take a straight line back. The only problem was some standing water in some bottoms I needed to make it through... All was fine until about 25 feet left to go, when I suddenly found myself walking knee deep in ice water... Talk about a chilling experience! Thank god for wadded-up newspapers in the toes to draw out the water, and my neighbor's boot driers running ever since! Hopefully, they'll be dry enough for this afternoon in a few hours.