I played around with Wright Socks for a few seasons, and still have a couple pairs. They're gimmicky junk IME.
Darn Tough 1/4 midweight hikers for the win. Stellar durability and comfort - they'll go far in excess of a "couple hundred miles."
I was really glad for the Wrights that first week down by the border. It was HOT (90°+), so our feet were sweaty, and gritty, and obviously they weren’t hardened off yet. They do work as advertised, IME. But they are fragile and don’t last long.
Cyn uses Darn Tough, sometimes. They do have that road-hazard warranty <g>. I haven’t tried them.
Everyone got blisters that first week or two. Everyone. I should’ve taken pics of my heels. Looked like something out of a zombie movie. You just gotta drain them and keep truckin’. Every heard of the dental floss trick with blisters? I stopped using a needle to drain mine and used the very sharp tip of my Benchmade Bugout (best backpacking knife ever!)…. making a wee little slit rather than a hole kept them draining.
The weird thing was I didn’t even get my first blister until 5-6 days in! I thought I was home free. Then my other heel, which had been just fine for at that point almost two weeks, went. Fun.
(you use a needle to run floss through the blister, then leave it in there. The floss I mean. Then you just tug the floss several times a day to re-open the drain hole.)