I'm following all these snow boot posts with interest because now that I am getting more serious about exercising, my walking-outdoors requirements for boots have changed. As I discovered the first time I headed out from work for a lunchtime walk in the Waterfowl Park, only to realize, right, we may have sidewalk ploughs in New Brunswick but they don't do the trails: ready for calf-deep snow in your work pants and leather boots? And then last week the sun-warmed packed ice. And now today I'm housebound with an ice storm that's downed power lines throughout the province. I don't think any footwear is safe on this stuff.
So far it is watchful expectancy (since I DO already own a lot of boots, and boots suited for snow, just not super-supportive ones for long walks). But, I think I am starting to crave a pair of mukluks. And then one of my patients showed up in a pair yesterday--she said they cost (about how much I expected, more than I usually spend on footwear) but they are wonderfully comfortable and she wears them daily. (But, she is a farmer, unlike me.)
Anyway I have just been to the Manitobah Mukluks site and discovered theirs have a Vibram sole too.