If Filson's slogan is "Might as well have the best" then Thinsulite should be "better than nothing." Thats my biased opinion.Take a look at any pre WW2 ski photo, such as the famous shot of Hemingway. They all looked like the tubular Michelen man with a BIG, WARM smile on their faces. Look at any contemporary shot. People are stylish and svelt, coloured like peacocks and uniformly grim faced and cold. The bean boot is a combination of 3 systems; the rubber boot for slush and rain above @ 20 degrees F, the leather boot of summer fall and the traditional mukluc of leather and canvas for cold winter. The full winter Sorel-Bean boots employ a felt booty, a thick rubber and felt sole insert and optional extra sheepskin insert. Into this you usually insert a foot clad in a wicking sock liner and 1 to 3 woolen socks. Return the Cabelas. Buy a Bean or Sorel. Smile like Hemingway.He was young and poor, but it was good with the PSK tin bought at the tobacconists on the left bank thinking of next winter's skiing.