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Socks for Canoeing and Camping

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Basspro69

12/19/2012 08:29AM

What do you wear when its hot and when its cold.

" I want to know Gods thoughts , The rest are details " Albert Einstein. WWJD

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DayDreamin

12/19/2012 08:32AM

smartwool. all year round

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mooseplums

12/19/2012 08:33AM

Merino wool socks...no less than 70% wool. Various weights.. Year round

"I am haunted by waters"~Norman Maclean "A River Runs Through It"

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Cedarboy

12/19/2012 08:38AM

Ditto Mooseplums.
CB

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OldGuystilltripping

12/19/2012 08:56AM

Smartwool are great. Light Hikers for portaging and 1/4 socks for around camp. The liners are great by themselves as light socks for hot weather and wear really well.

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Spartan2

12/19/2012 09:32AM

I wear Merino wool socks 100% of the time, when canoeing and all the rest of the time, too. Most of mine are Smartwool, but some are Icebreaker and a few other brands. If I am in socks, they are wool, period.

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HammerII

12/19/2012 09:50AM

socks? You people wear socks?

panic kills

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fitgers1

12/19/2012 09:54AM

quote Cedarboy: "Ditto Mooseplums.
CB"

Double ditto Mooseplums when it is cold but add virgin wool to my answer.
I usually do not wear socks when it is hot when I am camping but if I do, same answer.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson...and...“Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".

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schweady

12/19/2012 10:31AM

quote DayDreamin: "smartwool. all year round"

Ditto. Hoping that socks are in my stocking.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." -- Yogi Berra

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mocha

12/19/2012 10:40AM

quote mooseplums: "Merino wool socks...no less than 70% wool. Various weights.. Year round"

yep, me too.

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KevinL

12/19/2012 11:23AM

Fox Socks with merino wool all year long for both every day and for camping. Sister-in-law and brother-in-law work there and I never run out of socks. They just don't wear out.

KevinL

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alpine525

12/19/2012 11:42AM

quote DayDreamin: "smartwool. all year round"

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. Dalai Lama

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mirth

12/19/2012 01:59PM

Wool (smart or dumb) year round when camping. Trying to amass enough wool socks to outright replace my daily drivers but not quite there yet.

Also hoping for wool this year for Christmas, we'll see....

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"

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jcavenagh

12/19/2012 02:02PM

wool.

LNT - The road to success is always under construction. http://hikingillinois.blogspot.com/

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HowardSprague

12/19/2012 02:22PM

quote mirth: "Wool (smart or dumb) year round when camping. Trying to amass enough wool socks to outright replace my daily drivers but not quite there ..."

I like your thinking....I used to resist wearing my Smartwool or Tekko socks if I wasn't out hiking or paddling on a trip, but it's too darned tempting to get the extra bit of comfort day to day!

BTW, got a pair of Fits socks at 'Copia and they are the most comfortable yet.

"Enjoy every sandwich"

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mcsweem

12/19/2012 02:31PM

quote KevinL: "Fox Socks with merino wool all year long for both every day and for camping. Sister-in-law and brother-in-law work there and I never run out of socks. They just don't wear out. "

my brother inlaw runs up to Osage and gets me those every year for x -mas. You're right, those fox socks never wear out.

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Jeriatric

12/19/2012 02:48PM

Merino wool socks are my all-around favorite. However, on my cold-water solo trips I have worn Coolmax liners under high neoprene socks when paddling.

I also wear the liners under waders.

The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that's all there is. ___Mr Carson (Downton Abby)

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snakecharmer

12/19/2012 08:07PM

Ditto on the Merino wool. It's all I wear...year round. Have for years.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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luft

12/19/2012 08:19PM

quote Spartan2: "I wear Merino wool socks 100% of the time, when canoeing and all the rest of the time, too. Most of mine are Smartwool, but some are Icebreaker and a few other brands. If I am in socks, they are wool, period."

Ditto... all wool all the time.

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kanoes

12/19/2012 08:22PM

quote luft: "
quote Spartan2: "I wear Merino wool socks 100% of the time, when canoeing and all the rest of the time, too. Most of mine are Smartwool, but some are Icebreaker and a few other brands. If I am in socks, they are wool, period.

Ditto... all wool all the time."

same here

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overthehill

12/19/2012 08:29PM

quote mooseplums: "Merino wool socks...no less than 70% wool. Various weights.. Year round"

YEP. +1

Not to Hurry-Not to Worry

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Savage Voyageur

12/19/2012 08:34PM

quote mooseplums: "Merino wool socks...no less than 70% wool. Various weights.. Year round"

Another vote for wool

"So many lakes, so little time." WWJD

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kanoes

12/19/2012 08:35PM

im styling in my REI merinos with crocs in the summer. wearing shorts of course.

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Corsair

12/20/2012 02:45AM

Um did anyone mention wool :)

"Pack lightly, Tread lightly"

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sunnybear09

12/20/2012 08:20AM

Wool during the day when my feet may get wet, even in Chotas with Knee Highs, but when its wet use neoprene around camp under my Solomon water shoes.

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PompousPilot1

12/20/2012 08:28AM

quote DayDreamin: "smartwool. all year round"

Agreed. Very hard to beat a good pair of these.

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king - Shakespeare 'A Winters Tale'

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neutroner

12/20/2012 09:22AM

Liner Socks and Smartwool when hiking. Smartwool all other times.

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airmorse

12/20/2012 10:39AM

smartwool year around.

"In wilderness is the salvation of mankind." Thoreau.

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vinnie

12/20/2012 12:00PM

Merino wool, smart wool, what ever wool year around

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BearWhoSwims

12/20/2012 01:45PM

TEKO
I like both the wool and the cotton.
Company is pretty cool too

While some delve deep in mustie books in quest of learning rare, Ye wise folk walk by trees and brooks and gain of wisdom there.

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Kiporby

12/20/2012 01:49PM

quote vinnie: "Merino wool, smart wool, what ever wool year around"

There is a light and it never goes out. Morrissey

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TheBrownLeader

12/20/2012 02:30PM

Smartwool during the day, WigWams at night in the sleeping bag. Those are thick enough that I don't mind walking around in them at night if nature calls. And comfy.

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drnatus

12/21/2012 12:01PM

I'm weird-- I like cotton socks around the house when it is not cold. I could do wool, but prefer to save the wool for outdoors or cold. Wool in outdoor environments summer or winter.

Never criticize someone until you walk a mile in their shoes....by then you'll be a mile away and they will be shoeless!

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nctry

12/21/2012 12:08PM

quote drnatus: "I'm weird-- I like cotton socks around the house when it is not cold. I could do wool, but prefer to save the wool for outdoors or cold. Wool in outdoor environments summer or winter."

i'm weird too I guess... I save the wool for trippin' or cold.

Nctry

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