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Purchased these during Christmas last year. My first Alpaca socks! My hope was that these socks would perform better than the Merino wool socks I have been using in which my feet always sweat walking to my stand location and would get cold as I remained stationary. To remedy this I have been wearing a nylon liner sock and my hope was to eliminate this extra sock. They came packaged each in their own very nice reusable ziplock type bag and were thinner than expected. As I wore them they seemed cooler, but unfortunately I encountered the same sweat issue and had to go back to adding the nylon liner sock. Because these socks are thinner than my merino wool socks. I now wear them as general hiking sock now and they serve that purpose well. Rating them three stars not because of a quality issue but because they didn’t meet the expectations for my intended purpose.

Like many, I was disappointed these were made in China. Shipping took longer than expected. I should have done better research on the product before buying. now about the socks. They are decent at best, in my opinion. I have several other brands of Alpaca socks. My feet stay too hot and wet in these. Good note. All that sweat, they don’t stink. Due to the cost to return the product, these got turned into my mountain bike socks. They do stay up very well when pedaling for hours offroad, but that wet feeling is just not good. I wanted these to work, but they just didn’t