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Light Hike Sock

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Light Hike Sock

Dan English

Pagosa Springs, CO

Price

$40.00

About this piece

  The hike sock you'll actually want to wear every day. Most hiking socks are either too bulky for all-day wear or too thin to handle real trail miles. You need protection and moisture management without the excessive cushioning that turns your boots into sweatboxes. The Light Hike Sock is built with DUAL SURFACE™ Precision Blended Wool - high-performance wicking fibers next to your skin pull sweat away before it creates friction. Fine-micron merino on the exterior buffers temperature extreme...

About the artist

Dan English spent years in the outdoor industry watching brands ship production overseas and lose control of quality. In 2013 he moved to Pagosa Springs and started building a textile mill from scratch. Voormi's patented Core Construction — which weaves technical fibers directly into merino wool — was developed in-house because no existing mill could do it. The result is fabric that's warm like wool, abrasion-resistant like a softshell, and made entirely in Colorado.

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