Waterproof, knee high boots that you’ve logged some miles in, good rain gear, and a set of those portable boot dryers.
Thanks for the help, but I'd really appreciate specifics/brands, etc.
Certainly. I wore a pair of Muck Wetlands boots over Darn Tough socks. I wore Sitka Cloudburst rain paints over the tops of the boots, with a set of Kenetrek gaiters over the pant bottoms to protect them from the underbrush and suffered no tears (in either rain paints nor neoprene uppers of the Mucks). I wore the Cloudburst jacket as an outer shell and was never wet. I would suggest a good set of liner gloves and overgloves. I wore the liners while hiking just as general protection from my hands from brush, but my hands didn't sweat. I put the overgloves on when we were glassing for warmth.
The small boot warmers (Peets, I believe) were indispensable for drying the moisture from perspiration from the boots in the evening while the generators were on.
