[pct-l] socks
Junaid Dawud
jdawud at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 4 23:14:25 CDT 2007
That must be why my hands always smelled like someone
elses stinky feet. I guess I can fire that private
investigator I hired.
---------Junaid aka speshul41
--- jeff.singewald at comcast.net wrote:
> Sue,
>
> I would definitely agree with you about WrightSox.
> I had only one very minor blister during my entire
> thru-hike last year. I used WrightSox the whole
> way. I had three pair that I would tradeoff during
> the day. I would wash them out when water was
> available and they would rarely take more than an
> hour to dry. My only issue is that durability was a
> minor issue. I typically replaced the WrightSox
> about every 800 miles.
>
> I realize that there are other choices and I am not
> completely sold on the notion that these sox were
> the reason for my lack of blisters. I still believe
> that it was partly due to the fact that I put in
> more than 400 training miles in advance of my hike
> and my feet were accustomed to walking 20 mile days
> in the same shoes that I used for the entire trail
> (Brooks).
>
> By the way, I typically was ahead of Junaid on the
> trail, so that I was able to wash my sox in the
> water sources before he washed the hands/fingers he
> used to wipe his back side!
>
> Elevator
>
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