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As the title says, which do you use / prefer?
I have some good full length ones but I'm worried that there would be rubbing inside the ski boot if I pulled my socks over them. Also, the bottoms are too narrow to fold back over my calves if that makes sense.
I have some 3/4 ones too but they're a pain as they don't sit high enough and ride down at the back all the time.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I would strongly recommend that you don't put anything inside your boots apart from feet and seamless socks! If you do, you will surely end up with pressure points and sores.
I rarely wear thermal leggings but, if I do, I make sure they are stretchy enough to bundle up above my boots.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I agree, you don't want them in your boots.
Go 3/4 a size or two on the big side.
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I have used both - have to say that the merino 3/4s I use now are the most comfortable combo. Just socks inside boots reduce the pressure points and seem to produce less clammy feet. Mine sit above my outsize cyclists calf with no issue, never go back to full longs.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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shootingmike,
3/4 Icebreaker 180's over Falke socks
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Fri 4-11-11 15:08; edited 1 time in total
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I guess I'm lucky that my legs are so long and my boots relatively short, so that even the full length ones do not meet the top of my boots.
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I just fold them back on themselves so they sit above the boot.
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Thanks for the replies, as I thought, not a good idea to put anything other than sock in a ski boot.
Looks like I need some more 3/4's then as the ones I have annoy me. They're quite shiny material and like I said, too short at the back so they expose the low back too easily.
Any recommendations for makes? I see someone above said icebreaker...
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I quite like the North Face ones
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| shootingmike wrote: |
As the title says, which do you use / prefer?
I have some good full length ones but I'm worried that there would be rubbing inside the ski boot if I pulled my socks over them. Also, the bottoms are too narrow to fold back over my calves if that makes sense.
I have some 3/4 ones too but they're a pain as they don't sit high enough and ride down at the back all the time. |
Put your socks on before your thermals, then it's easy to pull up the thermals a couple of inches so they clear the business bit of the boot without rucking up the socks
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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queen bodecia, got any photos?
I prefer 3/4s and have been known to take scissors to full length ones.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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under a new name, photos of base layers? They're all over the internet, use the google goddammit...
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queen bodecia, No, these very long legs of yours. I'm quite a "legs" man... 
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You know it makes sense.
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under a new name, bog right orf!
If it help I'm also old, fat and ugly. Now do stop being hormonal.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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queen bodecia, can't blame a chap for trying
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Poster: A snowHead
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Lowe Alpine dryflo tights all the way. Easy to fold up over top of boot as quite stretchy, thin and high wicking.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have found 3/4 leg much better
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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shootingmike, if you already have long ones with too-tight bottoms to push up, just chop them off. I've done that with several, and they don't unravel - if they show signs of doing so, you could find some old lady who still knows how to sew to fix them for you. 
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Good idea! My mum sews..
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