If you’re planning on spending more time outdoors this year, be it on the trail in hiking boots, in a tent or on the ski slopes, you’ve probably heard about the wonders of wool. To your mate Dave, wool is a miraculous natural fabric that keeps you warm in the cold, cool in the heat and never needs to be washed (he professes, while trying to get you to smell the hiking socks he’s been wearing for three months straight).
But can all these wild claims really be true? If your main experience with wool is an itchy, misshapen sweater your parents forced you to wear any time you went over to your Grandma’s for Thanksgiving, it’s hard to imagine donning a garment made of wool to go hiking or skiing – but then again, all these hikers and skiers can’t be wrong, can they?
