I gave the Wilderness ‘Cape to Cape Light Hiker’ socks a try.

A bit over a year ago I started training in earnest for a longnwalk that I am taking later this year, the Camino de Santiago.nOnce I began getting some serious hours up in daily andnweekend walks I started to refine my options for clothing,nshoes and of course, my socks. Apart from the obviousndecisions about comfort, the socks needed to be merino wool asnthey appear to be the only type of sock that can be washed at nightnand be ready to wear the next morning. This is important when I amnonly taking two pairs of socks in total. When you are going to walknfor over a month and plan for the total backpack weight including ansleeping bag to come in under 6 kilos, everything has to performnwell. There can be no passengers.I bought some very well regardednand highly priced brands, and all performed really well for the shorternwalks or in any normal activity. But during summer, these fanciednbrands often fell short as pounding the pavement for several hoursnin temperatures in the high 30’s showed the construction was notnsuitable for softening feet in overheated conditions. One day Inended up with an imprint of a sock’s internal construction embeddedninto my sole, and that was from a very well regarded brand .I startednto look at other varieties of merino socks and gave the Wildernessn‘Cape to Cape Light Hiker’ socks a try.