How is it that you have never intersected with one of my googly-eyed odes to SmartWool? Because I do it all the time. If I'm wearing socks, they're either handknit by a friend, or their SmartWool. Period.
The stripedy ones are fine for like, non-outdoors purposes. (After all, it is not always frigid, and sometimes one wants summer socks. Or running socks.)
I just wish they made the heavy duty ones also in phantasmagorical colors.
See, I like regular SmartWool for summer hiking, too, because I find the moisture wicking that keeps my feet warm in the winter keeps them cool in the summer, go moisture wicking.
But I do things other than hiking. Like running down to the store for a half-gallon of milk in June. And the not-very-heavy ones are ideal for that, because they are not warm, but they breathe and wick just as well as the warm ones.
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Date: 2008-12-09 12:09 pm (UTC)It's gone to college?
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Date: 2008-12-09 01:37 pm (UTC)Okay, it would be the perfect sock if the hiking ones came in stripes and colors.
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Date: 2008-12-09 02:30 pm (UTC)They had light hiking in fuschia and grass green at my REI, but ew. Ew.
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Date: 2008-12-09 02:35 pm (UTC)I just wish they made the heavy duty ones also in phantasmagorical colors.
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Date: 2008-12-09 02:36 pm (UTC)I mean, when I can hike at all.
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Date: 2008-12-09 02:41 pm (UTC)But I do things other than hiking. Like running down to the store for a half-gallon of milk in June. And the not-very-heavy ones are ideal for that, because they are not warm, but they breathe and wick just as well as the warm ones.
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Date: 2008-12-09 05:54 pm (UTC)I have not been able to convince my mother-in-law that it's hypoallergenic.
I have blistered with SmartWool socks while hiking, but nowhere as much as with other options.