The right pair(s) of socks?

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Left Turn

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I blister easily and it took me several tries to find a sock that helped.
In my experience I blister more easily than nearly everyone I've met. Hopefully you won't have such problems!

Out here in California, I worry more about heat than cold, so I have more experience keeping my feet cool and dry than warm and dry.

The theory of one thin, one thick sock is that any rubbing of layers from the action of walking will happen between sock and sock rather than sock and skin.

My feet get hot and sweaty very easily (even in our "winter" (water rarely freezes)). Sweat = damp skin = more blisters (at least for me).
I wear one pair of coolmax socks rather than doubling my socks and I've gone to injinji socks that have separate toes built right in. I don't know how widely they are available outside the US, but they are the best solution for me so far.

I also tape my feet with sports tape on the places where I blister - sock rubs on tape rather than my feet. I learned to tape my feet from a book called Fixing your Feet.

Happy walking!
 

beamdune

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The most walking I have ever done was on a school trip to the lake district about 20 years ago. On my feet, leather walking boots from millets that cost around £25 and 2 pairs of cheap ribbed woollen socks.

I now have the biggest sock drawer in the world, filled with a small fortune's worth of overpriced technical hiking socks. Anyone know where to buy 'traditional' looking thick wool socks? (not the army ones, they look too long for my liking).
 
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John Fenna

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Ah - fond memories of Ullapool, where I bought my first real walking boots, learned to drink Whisky, fell in love for the first time and found out about life in the slow lane!

I must go back some day.....
 

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