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Darn Tough Socks Versus the 6-Dollar Pairs: The Cost-Per-Mile Math

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There’s a moment every hiker hits around week three of sock season: you pull off your boots at the trailhead, and the heel of your sock has gone transparent. Not thin — transparent. You can see through it to the welt stitching underneath. That’s the pair you paid twelve dollars for at the outfitter two … Read more

Wool Base Layers That Don’t Stink on Day Three

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Three Days in the Same Shirt, and Nobody Knew There’s a specific moment on a cold-weather trip where base layers stop being gear-nerd talk and start being the whole game: day two of a three-day hunt or a late-October backpacking loop, when your synthetic base layer has been sweated in, rained on, and dried by … Read more