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#84606 - 02/01/07 08:25 PM Re: Gloves - Which REALLY keep your hands warm?
AROTC Offline
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Snow seal to keep them dry and since the wool liners are only another 12 dollars get another set of liners so that you can wear one while the other dries.
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#84607 - 02/01/07 09:14 PM Re: Gloves - Which REALLY keep your hands warm?
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#84608 - 02/02/07 12:59 AM Re: Gloves - Which REALLY keep your hands warm?
benjammin Offline
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Loc: Anchorage AK
The best gloves I could recommend are diver's gloves made with neoprene. They hurt after a while, and since they don't breath, eventually your hands get quite soggy inside them, but they seem to do better for me than anything else. I've used the whole gloves and the ones with some or all of the fingertips removed. The whole gloves are dextrous enough that I can do field work on antenna towers in the middle of winter and not have the arthritis in my hands stove up my fingers. If I take the gloves off to do more intricate work, I have about 3 minutes before I have to use a screwdriver to pry my fingers open with.
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#84609 - 02/02/07 05:36 AM Re: Gloves - Which REALLY keep your hands warm?
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Registered: 01/23/07
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I agree with everyone's comments that mittens are warmer than gloves. I have several different kinds of mittens from leather, to heavy wool, to insulated gore-tex. Generally I wear the leather for ax or other heavy work, the heavy wool for extreme cold, and the gore-tex for wet. But I wear the same liner for all of them--cheap Wal-Mart acrylic gloves with the plastic gripping dots on the palm face. When I need to do delicate work (such as striking a match), I can slip off the mittens and do it with the grippy liners without freezing my hands.

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