Foot wrap for snowy conditions using a deer skin.

Before you throw out your deer hide, read this.

The caveman boot have a value in the 21st century. With the hair facing into your foot, it will keep snow out where seems are not perfect and holes exist. Cut any section of a worked deer hide, unsmoked; one which will cover your whole foot. If the hide is not a worked hide, it should be a stretched hide; wet the flesh side until damp and flexible. Cut small slits all around the border of the hide piece and put you foot into the hair side. Find or cut quite a long length of buckskin for the lace and lace the skin back and forth from the toe, all the way up your foot and behind for the heel.

I wouldn’t wear this boot on an expedition to the North Pole, so avoid deep snow, but it is incredibly warm, dry and comfortable and lighter than heavy mocks. You can also wear them in wetish conditions as they will easily dry and they are incredibly easy and fast to make. On that note however, like any skin shoe, these in particular, they are like crazy carpets on your feet - so they have absolutely no traction. Also, if the skin shoe gets soaked, and then hung to dry,  they shrink quite a bit. 

They are great for trodden snow paths, cold concrete garages and shoveling in the winter. 

Most importantly, there is no environmental impact. No plastic or chemical rubber that will linger for long after the shoe ceases to perform its function.

The quality of coverage is up to you, as well as the flexibility of the initial hide. They will soften on their own with time and conform to the foot if they get wet.

Fast footwear at its apex.

You have not lived until you have worn a fur shoe on your bare foot.