Merino Wool Socks Wet!!

Wool = Warm when wet, but dry very slowly.

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"Warm when wet, but dry very slowly."

I agree.
If your socks don't dry overnight, they might initially be cold when you put them on in the AM, but warm up quickly.

There is also a far less chance of them getting smelly on a long wet hike. Synthetic and cotton socks can reek after a while.

Here is a tried and true method for drying wool socks:

Place a sock on each shoulder between your base layer and your bare skin. Do this around evening-time–when you change into a pair of dry socks for lounging around camp/sleeping. Keep the socks there all through the night (yes, sleep with them) and stay warm. By morning, your socks will be warm and dry (or at least warm and less wet).

Note:
*If your socks are dripping wet, do your best to wring the water out of them before placing them under your base layer

*May not work so well in warm, damp (humid) environments

I do the same as Chris and put them on my chest/shoulders overnight under my baselayer….if not dry at least less wet and warm by morning.

I have to admit that I do the same thing that Chris recommends.

It can introduce more moisture into your bag/quit, but I usually do it anyway.

If everything is too wet, I sometimes hang my wet gear above me under my tarp. I usually run a line under the ridge for hanging gear that I want to keep dry. It works much better than hanging stuff outside as nothing will be dry after morning dew, especially if it has been raining a lot.

I wait until my wife is asleep then I stick them in her sleeping bag. By morning they are dry and my sleeping bag stays perfectly dry that way.

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"I wait until my wife is asleep then I stick them in her sleeping bag."

Hell hath no fury like a woman's …

That would never work with me:-)

"It can introduce more moisture into your bag/quit, but I usually do it anyway."

Yeah, you do have to take advantage of sunny/breezy mornings and air out your sleeping bag as soon as you wake up so you can drive out any accumulated moisture. If you're in a high altitude area where the air is dry, even better…

I've even dried out frozen wet leather gloves using body heat (I put them right below my armpits–the first 30 seconds kinda sucked, though). It works…