I live in California and purchased these boots after Thanksgiving for my December 12 Christmas trip to Europe, as they looked fit for snow. I will never know, the zipper gave up during my outbound trip over the Atlantic, all that quality doesn't mean anything without a good zipper. When I got to my destination had to spend a couple of days browsing the stores so I can buy other boots. Not the way we planned our trip! Very disappointing and inconvenient considering that luggage is limited nowadays on international flights and they weight a few pounds- I will probably have to pay extra just to be able to return them...