[pct-l] socks

[Shauna]

I like wright socks too.   When it's cold I put on two pair of the thin
ones and my feet feel good.   I've got gotten a blister since I switched to
wearing running shoes a few years back.



On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:14:25 -0700 (PDT), Junaid Dawud <jdawud at yahoo.com>
had this to say:

>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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