How To Choose A Ski Sock That Works In A Hard Boot

Thinner Is Usually Warmer

The instinct is to buy the thickest sock available. Inside a hard ski boot that instinct is wrong. A thick sock compresses the foot against the shell, restricts circulation and makes the foot colder, not warmer. A midweight merino sock with padding only at the footbed and shin insulates through fibre performance while leaving boot volume unchanged.

Height Is Not Negotiable

A ski sock has to finish above the boot cuff. If the sock ends below the shell, the plastic contacts bare skin at exactly the point where the shin takes the most pressure. Over the calf is the only correct height, for adults and for children.

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Where The Padding Belongs

Padding is only useful where the boot presses: across the footbed and up the shin. Padding everywhere else just adds volume. Full terry across the footbed and a padded shin panel is the construction we use on both adult and kids ski socks for that reason.

Never Wear Two Pairs

Two socks inside a ski boot create a friction layer between them that produces blisters, and the combined thickness restricts circulation. One correctly specified pair does the job of two badly specified ones.

Kids Need A Different Sock Not A Smaller One

A child's ski sock has to stay up without an adult pulling it up every run, and has to come off without a struggle at the end of the day. That means a soft-grip cuff that holds position without constriction, and enough stretch that a child can manage it alone. Our kids ski sock is built around those two requirements.

Read the full specification for Kid Ski Socks