Moisture issues with hiking socks?

Moisture issues with hiking socks?

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Slight dampness at the front end of hiking socks: Slight dampness at the front end of hiking socks caused by sweat, and it feels wet and cold when resting. At this time, the outer layer of the shoe is usually dry, and the inner layer is also slightly damp at the front end, which usually occurs when the weather is good. The footsteps are fast and the sweat is profuse. The way to deal with it is to change into a pair of dry hiking socks after arriving at the camp or destination, and then put the slightly damp hiking socks in the pocket of the down jacket, and they are almost dry before going to bed.

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For the moderate humidity of hiking socks caused by sweat (when the water is not wrung out): it is obvious that the hiking socks are wet when wearing them, which is likely to occur in people who are naturally prone to sweat a lot, or the outer layer of the shoes is already wet in light rainy weather, and the sweat inside the shoes The water vapor evaporation effect is not good. For wet hiking socks in this situation, you can first put them on a kettle filled with hot water, and the hot water will quickly evaporate the moisture in the hiking socks. At this time, you will obviously see a large amount of white smoke coming out of the wet hiking socks. After the temperature of the hot water drops, you can repeat the operation in the heated water until the hiking socks are obviously much dry. Put them in a sleeping bag when you sleep, and you will have dry hiking socks that can be used the next morning.

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The hiking socks are breathable during the march: When the weather conditions permit, you can take off your shoes to let the hiking socks breathe, or even take off the hiking socks and place them on hot stones, which can reduce the dampness of the hiking socks.

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The shoes are not damaged, but the hiking socks are seriously wet: Wearing undamaged rain boots, the hiking socks are severely wet in various situations, usually due to factors such as rainwater pouring, failure of the waterproof layer of the shoes, and slipping in the creek. Wet can wring out water. To dry hiking socks, the first step is to wring out the water as much as possible, drain the water inside the shoes, and then treat them as moderately damp socks, please refer to the second item above.

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Severe dampness of hiking socks due to broken shoes: For severe dampness of hiking socks due to various situations, shoes are also damp to a certain extent, evaluate the degree of dampness of your shoes, and find out the cause of shoe leakage, such as unable to deal with shoe leakage factors (such as failure, damage), then you can only repeatedly wring out the hiking socks, you don’t need to dry them, because wet shoes will still wet the hiking socks, unless you are walking vertically for more than six or seven days, and the weather is sunny every day , completely wet hiking shoes have a chance to dry. For a short-day itinerary, you have to be patient until you go down the mountain. Of course, you should change into dry hiking socks when you go to bed at night at the camp, and put on wet hiking socks when you walk the next day.