Do you wear gloves on the trail or in the backcountry?

What is your favorite selection?

Blake

www.outdoorquest.blogspot.com

Rarely. When I do it is mostly in rather cold conditions. I do, however, have a pair of good leather work gloves handy for situations where gloves are a good notion. For a long time I preferred a nice pair of leather dress gloves - they were light but still quite protective. In cold conditions I really like an inner pair of liner gloves, fleece or capilene, and an outer set of gloves or mittens, up to and including down filled mittens.

Doing archeological excavations, I will wear work gloves intermittently until my hands are toughened, and then I usually dispense with them. You can work much more carefully without gloves.


When bile riding, I always wear a pair of fingerless cycling gloves - also basically the same sort of rig when climbing and I am belaying.

around the ranch leather or elk skin, when on the trail I have leather ones in my gear, when working leather sap gloves or pigskin for thier sense of touch.

Not while hiking, sometimes when biking, almost always when working.

yes, but only in cold weather. (3 out of 4 seasons) I like Thinsulate fleece gloves most of the time, the kind that are gloves with a pocket over the finger tips. The exceptions are:

-when it's cold and wet, I'll upgrade to a pair of ski gloves

-I sometimes just use a liner glove if it's not too cold

-I keep a pair of leather work gloves in my pack too, for wood processing, handling hot pots/pans/bottles/cups, and potential hazards. (I.e. old barbed wire fences, broken glass)

Agree with Jac,we are cold so lots of cold gloves,have leathers too.

http://ilbob.blogspot.com/2011/12/farm-and-fleet-ruff-and-tuff-gloves.html

Only when it is cold out. However, I typically have them clipped to my pack straps even when they are not being worn.

I don't keep a pair in my fanny pack due to lack of room.

Personally, I wear doe skin gloves (factory seconds) that I get locally from a small time manufacturer. They are good for about 2.5 seasons in Oregon's high desert.

Poly liners are my friends.

Wondering about Goat skin gloves. They have some at the local hardware store. I understand they are pretty rugged.

Blake

I always have some heavy leather gloves when camping. Very good for cooking, tending the fire, processing wood, etc.

Leather in the pack and cold, often flight gloves as well if it is cold.

October-April these "glo-mitts" from Duluth Trading are in my pack. Convertible gloves. Love them, so much that when they were on sale for $7 a pair (Were $16 or so full price) I bought a bunch knowing that I'd lose some in the years ahead.

http://women.duluthtrading.com/store/product/womens-force-nine-glomitts-38002.aspx

I keep a couple pair of these glomitts as well as leather work gloves in the car.


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In the vehicle I always keep multiple pairs of Costco's leather work gloves. They have come in handy on numerous occasions Including car camping and construction projects. The extra pairs are for passengers.

I wear full fingered gloves when bicycling. I had a minor accident years ago without gloves and cut my palm. I had a more serious accident later on wearing full fingered gloves where my forearm got cut up and my body bruised enough to have to seek medical attention but the gloves had road rash instead of my hand.
I like pearl Izumi for colder weather and specialized for warmer weather.

If I'm doing a lot of rappelling I'll wear a pair of metolius gloves.

Once the weather turns cool I'll throw light weight gloves in my pack even if I'm taking winter gloves. Normally when I'm hiking, unless there's snow on the ground, I'm warm enough that light weight gloves are enough to keep the chill away.

Last winter for daily use I bought Columbia gloves with their omni heat dots. I have a hat with the technology that keeps me super warm but the gloves almost never kept my fingers warm enough once the temperature went close to freezing.

Montanero: Are these the green nomex type of glove?

Do you have a source?

Blake

Yes, they are, but we can also find tan (desert), and black. Where I live they are plentiful in the military surplus stores, and cheap (relatively). I just find that most of the time, that is what I wear when it is cold, unless my hands will be exposed for an extended period, then I have thicker gloves.

Always have some type of gloves depending on activity/season. Range from cheap brown jersey to fingerless ragg wool, to leather shooting, to various leather/wool mittens. Here is a pair that I tried for hiking etc this last winter. I really like them: Wells Lamont 1195XL Work Gloves. Cuff can be worn out as shown, or tucked in. Warm for their weight, and very flexible.

I have a bee allergy and poison ivy,oak and sumac are bad around here.I wear leather work gloves and long sleeves during all warmer months while out in the woods.This reminds me,MOREL mushroom season is coming up.....

BOATMAN
John

Got it. Many thanks,

Blake

www.outdoorquest.blogspot.com

and cheap fleece mits for cold Fall/Spring weather