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    I always grab the socks that have the least number of holes. Real men don't wear socks.


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    Quote Originally Posted by hopeak View Post
    I always grab the socks that have the least number of holes. Real men don't wear socks.
    Wait a sec... You grab socks... but real men don't wear them?

    So either you carry socks around for fun, or you're not a real man???
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    Quote Originally Posted by sgtdraino View Post
    Wait a sec... You grab socks... but real men don't wear them?

    So either you carry socks around for fun, or you're not a real man???
    Congratulations you solved the riddle: I am not a real man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tacmedic View Post
    sgtdraino- what if you wear a liner sock under the wool socks so it doesn't come in contact with your skin? Like a polypro liner sock? They are super thin and you can barely tell that they are there. I too favor smartwool socks for general hiking/wear and I have several pair of wigwam 40 below and Thorlos Expedition socks that I wear for serious cold.
    Thorlos make the best socks hands down in my opinion, as far as durability and warmth, an awesome sock.
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    I also wear smartwool. They are a great all year sock. They make different ones for different seasons. I have gotten them at REI on sale for around $5 but are worth the $16 price tag.

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    Smartwool here. I don't own anything else and haven't, for about 12 or 14 years.

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    My winter sock selection is similar to others here, but I will tell you my favorite summer time socks...

    Nylon dress socks. Some people will say they suck in boots. They are right. I don't wear them in boots. But, May to September, I hike in trailrunners. And trailrunners with nylon dress socks are awesome. If they get wet, they dry very fast. They also weigh half of what a normal hiking sock weighs. Goldtoe is my preferred brand. I bring three pair. One I wear, and carry two. At the end of the day, if I am hiking for more than three days, I wash one pair and they are dry by morning, or after a short trip on my pack in the sun.

    In the winter I wear them with wool or synthetic socks over top, like a liner sock.
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    I tend to wear cotton socks or woolen aircrew socks

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    What type of environment? What type of climate? Those are really the important questions to answer when trying to determine what type of socks to wear.
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    The ones that don't stick real bad. Socks huh, that's the topic. Well, let me see. I wear white cotton socks for the most part. When I was a kid I wore them white tube socks with the red and blue stripes, they came up to my knees. When I was a logger in the winter I wore a single pair of wool socks. While deer hunting I would wear a pair of cotton socks to my tree stands then change into a pair of wool socks and a new (dry) pair of cotton ones.
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