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

What is your favorite selection?

Blake

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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.