Ski Boots
Slot: Outer feet clothing
Harvest: 1 × [Cured leather]; 90 minutes
Repair: 1 × [Cured leather],; 1 × [Cloth]; 90 minutes; 30% condition
Ski Boots are a type of footwear in The Long Dark.
Ski Boots is an Outer feet item in The Long Dark. It adds 3°C warmth and 4°C windproofing. Waterproofing is 30%. It weighs 4 kg.
Within the Outer feet slot its 3°C warmth ranks #1 of 12 entries here — the warmest for that layer.
At 0.75°C per kg its warmth-to-weight ratio ranks #99 of 100 clothing items with both values recorded — a poor return for the weight.
Its 10% protection is a small edge in a predator struggle, though mobility and warmth matter more in most runs.
Note the 20% mobility penalty — it slows you slightly, so a lighter inner layer can be the better trade when you are carrying a heavy load.
Crafting notes: it repairs with 1 × Cured leather; 1 × Cloth; 90 minutes; 30% condition and harvests into 1 × Cured leather; 90 minutes.
Verdict: Overall Ski Boots is the warmest Outer feet option catalogued here, best reserved for cold-weather loadouts where the mobility hit is affordable.