These are excellent chore boots for wet and cold weather which is what I bought them for. Traction in snow is very good.  I would not want to hike in them. For me, they are not supportive enough for that, but they are not meant to be  hiking boots.  You should probably always take the temperature rating of boots (-35 here) as pure fiction.  I find them warm enough for extended periods down to about 10 degrees.  At zero my feet start to suffer after an hour or so.