Hello. Queen of Cold Feet here. It has taken me a while to dial in a mechanism that works for me, but work it does. I use down booties, along with socks. I bought these from feathered friends:
https://featheredfriends.com/collect...s-down-booties
They come with a weather-resistant shell that you can put over top of them, which works out nicely for leaving the hammock and not having to take them off. If it's really cold out, I'll put my (heavy wool) sleeping socks on and then these booties over top and wear them around camp / while we are lounging so that my feet start to warm up so I'm not getting into the hammock with semi-cold feet.
I then put my sit pad in or underneath my footbox, along with my down coat wrapped around (if I'm not wearing it). Plus, I always have a stash of foot warmers with me just in case.
I'm such a cold person though, that my feet are often cold when I'm hiking if it dips below 35 degrees or so, and as the body cools down when you get to camp, it just gets worse for me. I can't imagine that even if my footbox on my quilt had more loft in it, that that would do the trick for me. Since I rarely enter the hammock with warm feet if it's below 50 degrees.
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