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No more blisters with polyester dress socks
For a blister preventative, try this – polyester dress socks as a liner sock. Your climbing pals will envy you as the best dressed hiker at the trailhead, and your feet will be happy as the slick synthetic socks slide right over those problem areas of your heel. Blisters are caused by friction, and if you can minimize friction inside your boots, you decrease the chances of a blister forming.
You can buy low-end dress socks for about 3 pairs for $10 at local department stores. I have some heavy leather boots that took a long time to break in, and I had constant blister problems. After trying most other blister preventative tricks out there, I gave this as try – even though it sounded pretty goofy. Now I use it on every climb I go on, and not a single blister.
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