My feet were too cold to notice that water got inside my boot, then by the time my toes were freezing there was no way my nerves could let me know. I only spent around 4 hours like that, but it was enough. It wasn’t even painful until the moment it went into the shower so I had no idea what was going on even once I got home into a warm house. It’s sneaky stuff.

I do remember being creeped out by how white and immobile my toes were. I knew that wasn’t great, but I didn’t think they’d literally begun to freeze. I’m a lot more careful now.