My feeling following my experience making "wet landings" in Antarctica, during which the VERY cold water entered my boots and soaked my 100% wool socks, was that the wool absorbed my body heat (prior to getting wet) and kept my feet warm even though the socks were wet. I don't think I ever expected the wool to product heat, but to absorb my body heat and warm the cold water and keep it from reaching my body. The wool socks really did work, and others who didn't have wool in their socks had much colder feet than I did. And most of us had the same type of boots on.
I also had to keep moving (and therefore producing more heat) to keep my feet warm until I could dry the socks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ "Also, the warm feet in wool socks would either be because the cold water didn't penetrate the socks, or it did penetrate, and the socks held the water next to the skin where it warmed up with body heat. This is how a wetsuit works." Merry Luskin, Oakland CA To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
