Haha, in my day, I had a lot of fun with boots, even over the knee with "hot pants" lol. And other high heeled ones for the city.
Today for me, boots are for snow, it just suits me better to have my heel a little closer to the ground than those things I used to wear!
What were those boots sold at the ski resorts in the 70's and 80's? expensive, but Not pretty things, but they had a lot of traction and lasted forever, until one of my daughters cleaned my closet and threw them out. Started with a B, I think