Snowboard Socks

Other wise known as: Forward lean socks, snowboard specific sock

    Snowboard specific socks are now offered by a number of different companies and contain a variety of different features. Having on a pair of these will probably make quite the difference in a day on the mountain.

    Typically snowboard specific socks will be made out of a material that is NOT cotton, like wool or some synthetic blend. Something that will wick away your foot sweat in an attempt to stay dry.

    A snowboard specific sock should also have thinner material around your toes. This allows you to wiggle them around in the toe box of your boot and not be too tight that they cut off the circulation in your foot.

    The sock should also have thinner material on the top of the foot right next to the ankle. This is called your bone out area of your foot. The major player in cold feet while snowboard is having a sock that is thick here. The reason being is that when you get your snowboard boots on as tight at they should be then strap your bindings on tightly you are putting a lot of pressure in that bone out area of your foot. Now if you have a thick sock on that sock will be pressed into your foot and will cut off circulation to your whole foot, which sucks. So, the answer is having a sock that is thin in that area and having a stiff enough boot that allows the pressure of being tightly tied and the pressure of the bindings to be dispersed over a larger area of your foot.

    The sock should also be angled with forward lean, just like your bindings and your boots. If the sock is not then it will bunch up right over your bone out area and once again you are going in early because your feet are cold and numb.

    Finally the sock should go further up your calf then your boot does. The reason for this is so that when you are making long hard heelside turns your calf doesn’t have unnatural contours cutting off circulation inside your boot (like the top of your sock).

    A few pairs of snowboard specific socks are nice to have around because when they start to stink its hard to get rid of the smell… unless your mom has some trick, then she should let us know.

Did we miss something? Do you have any suggestions for others?