The "boots" in question were literally bought for Mt. Charleston some years ago.

I was on the way up there in the snow, and I thought, "Fuck, I don't have any regular snow shoes/boots to walk around in the snow."

I go skiing all the time but I would always wear either my ski boots or just regular tennis shoes, and just be careful if I'm in the tennis shoes and there's ice on the ground.

But I was going to have to walk around at Mt. Charleston, so that wasn't gonna cut it. So I stopped at some sporting goods store in NW Vegas on the way there and bought them, and here we are.