So this may not be an incredibly original idea. You can find both down leg warmers for sale, and knitted leg warmers that is buttoned. However what i wanted was leg warmers that are as light as possible, and as quick to take on and off as possible. This is because when backcountry or crosscountry skiing, you want as short brakes as possible to start with. Removing practically all the clothes and shoes and skis from your lower body to put on an extra middel layer is a bad idea to begin with. Traveling with a group i becomes outright stupid. Everyone will most probably hate you.
That said there is a problem that needs to be solved. In the start of every trip i always get really cold feet, however half an hour in i normally get to warm. I other words, i could need som ekstra warm clothing in the beginning, that would be easy to remove as soon as the body gets up to temperature. Thinking for a while i figured that something in the ballpark of down filled gaiters would be the way to go. I found an incredibly cheep down jacket on sale (like 20$) and got some zippers and some shoe laces off of ebay, and got sewing. Im obviously not a seamstress by and standard, but got it somehow working and i am fairly certain that it will work. They clock in at 90grams about 25$ and a couple of man-hours.
