Dear Parents: Remember back in the day those red hiking socks that were so thick that we needed shoes a size bigger and we still got blisters? Lucky for our kids those days are over.

Our Gusto hiking socks contain Merino wool and thanks to the differently knitted zones provide better hold less friction and super shock absorption.

Our little owl friend namuk motivates kids on the final spurt to the mountain peak and – so kids don’t always have to ask – we’ve marked the socks as left or right. We’ve also stitched the size inside the cuff so little siblings won’t keep taking the wrong pair.