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one more time lamilite socks come to the rescue

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ANOTHER LAMILITE SOCK STORY

Jerry,

I tried Rocky Boots years ago, when I first moved to Colorado, and started using them for hiking. What a disappointment! My feet got cold and wet in the snow, and I gave up on them—they just get used when I have to shovel my driveway now. I also have a pair of Vasque “winter” boots that I’ve used with other socks in the past for snowshoeing, which usually resulted in cold feet. A couple weeks ago I used your Lamilite Socks with my same Vasques on a 17-mile hike up Mt. Rosa, with about a quarter of its post-holing up to my knees in the snow. My feet never got cold! I wish I had known about Wiggy’s earlier, now I tell everyone about Wiggy’s! Years ago I didn’t summit Mt. Antero (14er) because my feet were freezing WITHOUT Lamilite. If I’d had your socks on I would have summited. ☹️

Art

Colorado Springs CO

While Art does not say he was wearing wool socks I am quite sure he was. Wool received its reputation for keeping people warm when the wool got wet because wool fiber used many years ago was course and when it did get wet it did not collapse. Hence it did offer some warmth retention.

Today the companies that make wool products are using merino wool which is a much finer wool fiber so it reacts to water much the same way that cotton does, when it absorbs the water it collapses just like cotton. Just about every sock company uses merino wool for their socks and they all make the same claim about how warm they are supposedly going to keep your feet. I think it is unfortunate that these sock manufacturers are uneducated about the fact that their product does absorb moisture and it is trapped if you will inside the wool fibers that the socks are made from and when that moisture cools it becomes a syphon for the heat from your feet with the end result of first cold toes and then cold the rest of the foot. Of course this situation becomes even more devastating when you consider the boots being worn most likely having a goretex film in them.

When you wear the nice and soft merino wool base layers the wool absorbs the sweat and keeps it which in turn absorbs your body heat and the end result is a chill. When you wear fishnet base layer underwear there is no material of any consequence to absorb your sweat so the heat from your body causes the sweat to vaporize and move away from you through your clothing so long as it is loose fitting versus close fitting as is the case with knitted garments.

Wool and down are now in the same boat so to speak of being over blown about their ability to work as insulations.

When polyester fiber was being made for the purpose of use as an insulation it was a true synthetic alternative for down. The problem DuPont, Eastman Chemical and Celanese faced was a lack of knowledge as to how best to use the fiberfill. To this day all of the companies that use the chopped staple fiberfill which was the original form do not have a clue as to how best to use it. Then of course Celanese brought the continuous filament fiber to the market and when I showed them how best to use the continuous filament fiberfill they shut the door on me as did the company I was working for. Today my method of using the continuous fiberfill allows me to make the most efficient use of the fiberfill. And the result is making down and all of the chopped staple fiberfills obsolete.

Without regard to the fashion aspect of wool garments but just dealing with performance garments what I make using continuous filament fiber; Lamilite/Climashield will easily outperform every garment of the same type for the same purpose on the market.

The basic reason has to do with the very simple fact that the Lamilite does not attach itself to any moisture; vapor or liquid. When you wear Lamilite socks all of the foot produced moisture moves away from the skin surface of each foot because the skin surface heat is the catalyst causing this movement.

The outdoor industry is deficient in having people with knowledge developing products. They are apparently so set in their ways that acquiring knowledge that may show them some of what they are doing is incorrect is unacceptable. Learning how devastating moisture becomes to any person venturing into the outdoors is simply ignored. Note that each year many of the same companies are talking about their new material that will keep you warm and dry. Also note that the next year as has been happening for 30 years or longer they in the industry are still talking about their “new and improved” product that will keep you warm and dry. It doesn’t work either. Now we hear from the north face company that they have the greatest of great waterproof breathable processes that make their product better than goretex. However, the north face company is not terminating their use of the goretex, why is that? Ask their marketing department! By the way their new futurelight product is as much a bogus product as goretex is.

In conclusion, if you want to stay warm and dry during the cold weather always wear clothing from head to foot that will allow the moisture that you are producing to as easily as possible get away from you and it should be in a vapor state as much as possible. Of course I am referring to Wiggy’s Lamilite insulated garments.  

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