Originally Posted by
achoo
If your MW80s and good socks are warmer than normal shoes, good socks, and shoe covers, you're wearing a different set of MW80s than I have. They're great shoes, and they certainly are a lot more waterproof than shoes and shoe covers. But layering works on feet, too, and socks and shoes are one less layer than socks, shoes, and shoe covers.
The thing I like about the MW80s is they don't get trashed if you have to dismount a lot because of treacherous conditions. Almost all shoe covers rapidly fall apart if you have to walk in them.
Yes, the largest failing of any shoe cover is snow packing up the opening in the soles during walking and then melting thereafter... The mw-80 do have a short ankle cuff(compared to lake mx3xx). Shimano's cuff seems inadequate to me to prevent snow getting in that way.