Mostly a tale about stinky feet with a question at the end.
I’m on my umpteenth pair of LS Wildcats, but decided to go with their new gray color instead of green. I’ve always paired them up with the white Wright coolmax ankle socks on the trail and gray Wright crew sock in the front country. For the most part, my feet have almost no odor unless they’ve been wet for a few days and I’ve put a lot of miles on them.
That was until a bit less than two weeks ago when I bought the new gray ones and whoo doggy, when I take my shoes off I feel compelled to apologize to everyone around me.
So I swapped out my Wright socks for my heavier Kirkland wool socks and regardless if I worked an 8 or 16 hour shift, I’m back to normal and no cadaver smelling feet.
Having owned over a dozen pairs of the green LS wildcats and never having this problem with them paired with the Wright socks, and not seeing any difference between the two structurally, I’m left to assume that it’s one of two things:
1. There’s something about the color gray that makes my feet overheat, or
2. LS has made some change to the Wildcat where my feet aren’t breathing as well anymore.
Either way, I don’t feel right taking these shoes back to REI so I’m just going to ride them out with wool socks.
With that disgusting story out of the way, this was the best example I’ve personally come across that illustrates how great wool is when it comes to odor. Enough so that I’m finally willing to give up my tried and true Wright socks and give the Darn Tough socks a go.
i know many here really like them but what are your thoughts on their thinner vertex 1/4 crew socks and their durability?
https://darntough.com/collections/mens-run/products/vertex-1-4-sock-ultra-light?variant=30180571143
