Backcountry - Ski - Snow - Socks
*New* Ski GFX Compression DL-Wool
$45.00 USD
Yes. It exists. Merino-wool construction, with Dissent’s all-day-consistent precision performance fit. Even when the intensity goes up - and your feet/socks/boots are damp or wet - the Dissent merino design will handle it all. You get the incredible locked-on Dissent fit, consistent GFX padding, graduated compression, and increased loft and warmth.
Unlike other merino wool sock constructions that quickly weaken and lose their fit and shape (especially when damp, like in a ski boot), we have optimized the design of the GFX Compression DL-Wool socks to live up to Dissent's performance standards. This sock is the culmination of extensive and exhaustive field testing, skiing, ski-touring, iterating, and experimentation, and it is quite simply the only merino sock to meet our standards for consistent performance.
Graduated Compression and low-profile Genuflex padding throughout - engineered together for all-day fit, performance, and comfort.
GFX padding provides increased warmth, and a similar fit to our popular Ski GFX Compression sock.
Optimized and thoughtful Dissent engineered bootfit - all day consistent and predictable precision, designed by bootfitters and skiers.
Dense yet low profile, high needle-count construction, and strategic 3-D second ply padding - increases comfort, and helps to in-fill slightly packed out performance-fit boots. Padding without excess bulk, ensuring Dissent’s performance fit.
Optimized construction using merino wool yarn and engineered technical yarns - exceptional moisture management, critical for all day comfort and blister prevention.
Seamless toe.
Unrivaled memory and shape retention for the ultimate fit, wash after wash.
Quite simply, the best high performance merino-wool ski sock available.
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Ski GFX Compression Hybrid Protect
$47.00 USD
The best of both worlds. The hybrid combines KEY features of the Dissent Ski Pro Fit (thin) and the Dissent Ski Genuflex (low-profile padded) socks.
Hybrid specific - POLYGIENE permanent anti-odor treatment, NANOGLIDE 6th-toe-start-zone protection and buffering.
Exceptionally direct bootfitting AND warmth combined. As always, Dissent optimized for big days of ski touring and backcountry travel.
Strategic GFX low-profile padding zones - toes, mid-sole, heel, ankle, and shin.
Thin, breathable, direct compression construction in unpadded zones - provides robust all-day-long bootfit consistency, and helps to expel moisture.
Graduated Compression and low-profile Genuflex padding zones engineered together. Increased warmth and padding protection.
TRUE-Compression - best fit, best feel, reduced foot numbness.
Optimized Dissent engineered bootfit - all day consistent and predictable.
Unmatched Dissent "direct" ski and snow feel.
Strategic 3-dimensional GFX second ply padding retains exact fit and memory in your boots, whether dry or wet.
Padding without bulk. Maximized comfort, with minimal increase in sock thickness.
Low profile, dense padding helps to in-fill slightly packed out performance-fit boots.
Engineered technical yarns and knit - provides exceptional moisture management, critical for all day comfort and blister prevention.
Unrivaled memory and shape retention for the ultimate fit, wash after wash.
Seamless toe.
Constructed using the best technologies available, using high needle-count machines, for exceptional feel and quality.
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Ski Pro Fit Compression Nano Tour - Thin
$45.00 USD
An industry first for freeride-touring, and performance
boot-fit perfection.
Backcountry, Slackcountry, or for a custom fit boot - this sock is a game-changer. Unmatched ankle compression fit for zero slippage minimizes the chances of heel/ankle rub and blisters. This is the ultimate freeride-ski-touring base line set-up.
Engineered usage of Nanoglide anti-friction teflon/PTFE yarn in the heel and ankle - further improved heel/ankle comfort and blister prevention when touring.
Graduated TRUE-Compression - best fit, best feel, reduced foot numbness.
Optimized Dissent engineered bootfit - thin, unpadded, race fit, for the most direct and consistent feel possible.
Designed for custom boots/footbeds/liners.
Engineered technical yarns and knit - provides capillary action, and exceptional moisture management. Unlike other socks (wool or synthetic), the Ski Pro Fit Compression Tour maintains a perfect fit when wet, critical for all day comfort and blister prevention.
Graduated compression reduces foot and leg fatigue.
Unrivaled memory and shape retention for the ultimate fit, wash after wash.
Constructed using the best technologies available, using high needle-count machines, for exceptional feel and quality.
*Note: For instep and heel fitting precision, we measure for foot size first. For larger calf sizes, and if already at the top of the foot size-range, consider the incrementally larger size for the Ski Pro Fit Compression sock.
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Ski Genuflex Compression Full Protect
$45.00 USD
*NEW* - Teal Blue colour option, size Small or Medium.
Graduated Compression and low-profile Genuflex padding engineered together. Increased warmth.
TRUE-Compression - best fit, best feel, reduced foot numbness.
Optimized Dissent engineered bootfit - all day consistent and predictable.
Direct ski and snow feel.
Strategic 3-dimensional, second ply padding.
Padding without bulk. Maximized comfort, with minimal increase in sock thickness.
Low profile, dense padding helps to in-fill slightly packed out performance-fit boots.
Engineered technical yarns and knit - provides exceptional moisture management, critical for all day comfort and blister prevention.
Unrivaled memory and shape retention for the ultimate fit, wash after wash.
Seamless toe.
Constructed using the best technologies available, using high needle-count machines, for exceptional feel and quality.
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DISSENT - FREESKIER Introspective, January 10, 2017
“I would be the guy stopping on the skin track about an hour-and-a-half into the day and re-taping my heels and ankles,” Hall says. “After years of doing that, I tried out some medical-grade compression socks and they were by far the best thing I had tried. So, I started going down the rabbit hole to see what was possible. How the compression construction, an improved fit and specific materials could together improve your chances of having the best possible day in your boots.”
With a degree in kinesiology, a passion for skiing and a disdain for feet that look like mangled hamburger meat after a daylong slog, Hall began working on his first prototype, testing them in and around Whistler back in 2010. Flash-forward to 2016—top bootfitters and pros like Stan Rey, Eric Hjorleifson and KC Deane swear by Dissent Labs socks.
“In my 20 years working in the industry with ski boots, I’ve never run into a ski sock like the ones from Dissent,” Surefoot Whistler Store Manager Sam McDonald says. “It is really refreshing to have a sock that isn’t built by an engineer or a marketing company thinking this is what people should use or this is what people will buy. Instead, Josh [Hall] is building things that work incredibly well for people that ski every day and then adapting it to the retail market.”
“Some of my other sponsors give me their socks, but I wouldn’t ever go back to a regular ski sock,” Rey says. “I am super sold on these Dissent Labs socks—I really like them.”
The Dissent Labs GFX Compression DL Wool Sock.
“It’s crazy—now I don’t wear any other socks other than Dissent’s,” Deane says. “On a day-to-day basis all I wear is Dissent, even when I’m not skiing.”
Using materials like friction-eliminating Nanoglide Teflon/PTFE yarn and a Merino wool that doesn’t lose its shape when wet, the hallmark of all Dissent Labs socks is they will stay locked onto your foot all day long without bunching or slipping.
“Our socks might be boring to some people because they don’t have crazy patterns or colors, but at the end of the day the people that care get it,” Hall says. “We are making a product that is just as technical as your outerwear or your skis or bindings.”
Dissent Labs isn’t the only brand using graduated compression to enhance ski socks, but its manufacturing process is one aspect that sets them apart from the rest. Each sock is painstakingly produced in a medical-grade facility complete with a test mule and machines that are set to run slower to ensure the desired construction and un-compromised fit that have become Dissent Labs’ calling card.
To further set Dissent Labs apart from others making ski socks, the brand’s location allows them to continually improve the product. Headquartered in Pemberton, the Dissent team logs hundreds of ski days testing socks in nearby Whistler every season.
“There are so many pros on the Dissent team out on the mountain all day, every day,” Deane says. “We can find weaknesses in the product so much faster because we’re skiing six to seven days a week. We’ll bring our feedback to Josh [Hall] and he’ll adjust the weave or try a different material. So, by the time the socks hit the stores, I’ve usually logged 150-plus days in them and they’ve really dialed in that final product.”
“Josh [Hall] is really open to feedback which is huge,” McDonald says. “If I have a problem with a product, I tell him and you see a change in that product within three months and that’s not something you see out of the big brands.”
Despite a horde of brand evangelists, the finest materials and a meticulous manufacturing process, Dissent Labs isn’t touting the miracle effects of their medical-grade graduated compression. While the competition claims improved blood flow and quicker recovery time, Hall is reticent to do so.
“I think some of the claims are legitimately true and science will prove it,” Hall says. “But every foot is different and that’s why we don’t hang our hat on the compression story alone. Compression was really just a means to an end to achieve the best fit and make the best product for bootfitters, backcountry skiers and anyone looking for an all-day, consistent ski sock.”
But that’s not stopping others from praising the benefits of Dissent Labs’ compression.
“I used to have so much trouble with socks—I always had cold feet and I would just chew through socks all season long,” Deane says. “But the Dissent compression keeps the circulation going and helps my feet to really stay warm. They’re all I’ll ever wear.”
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