Danner boots, they just fell apart.
Once when I was looking for new over trousers I allowed myself to be talked into buying girls over trousers and just wearing them as trousers, dispelling the need to carry, well; over trousers. All the rage apparently, so I thought I'd give them a go.
A good idea and from a very experienced climber who also happened to be the shop owner. Whilst these extra big girls breeks fitted me well, the fly in the ointment was that big girls seldom have size 12 feet therefore I couldn't take them off without first removing my boots and some of the places I get to thats not an acceptable prospect.
So it was that I found myself getting extremely cold up a hill one day, high winds low temperatures and driving snow/spindrift, had I had extra over trousers I'd have been fine, had I been able to remove them without having to take off my boots, I'd have been able to wear my extra emergency long-johns and have been fine. As it was I failed on that hill and had to retreat due to getting too cold, which was quite disappointing given the effort I'd put in to get to within a couple of hundred meters of the top, it was a long disappointing walk back to the car.
In the end I gave them away, to a tall woman with small feet