| Like a crouching tiger, winter weather is always | | | | GoreTex membranes create a weather blocker so |
| lurking in the background, ready to pounce on the | | | | that cold and moisture are kept out, yet over |
| remaining light-dimming days of late autumn. It's | | | | heating body heat can be dissipated. Create |
| never too early to get the jump on next winter's ski, | | | | maximum "flex" with fabrics like Schoeller and then |
| snow board and snow shoe season by checking out | | | | hold the entire ski glove together with Kevlar |
| the cutting edge ski gloves. | | | | stitching. What you have is a high tech battle-ready |
| No longer the "off season" winter is all about "getting | | | | accessory that can make a difference in how you |
| into any number of cool sports". Snow sport gloves | | | | feel, and how you perform out on the slopes. |
| increasingly reflect the multi-sport dimensions of | | | | When "Temperature Rating" Means Something. Frost |
| winter recreation. Skiers and snow boarders race | | | | bite or just raw-cold numbed fingers and hands is |
| down the groomed and forest-track trail. Meanwhile, | | | | enough for any snow boarder or skier to say "no |
| cross country skiers, telemark specialists, snow | | | | way, dude...keep my mittens toasty warm or else!" |
| shoers, winter hikers and climbers, and even | | | | Unless you're 100% certain that you'll be in spring ski |
| snowmobilers all look for sport-specific gear to match | | | | conditions, you'll want to check out ski gloves that |
| field conditions plus the level of intensity of their | | | | are warranted for "normal use" to around minus |
| activity. | | | | 20-degrees F. |
| Getting The Right Ski Glove. Alpine shaped-ski | | | | Gauging Winter Sport Glove Insulation. In lined gloves |
| "cruisers" can face bone-chilling chairlift rides | | | | or even 2-in-1 glove systems featuring and outer and |
| demanding polar bear strategies to retain hand | | | | inner glove, you'll be looking at insulating options that |
| warmth. Yet, once the ski set grab their poles at the | | | | include Polartec fleece liners, Thinsulate or perhaps |
| top of the mountain and launch themselves down the | | | | PrimaLoft. Getting insulation right means leaving "air |
| hill, sure-grip and flexibility in their ski gloves. | | | | space" within the fingers and palm air, for air to |
| Whether you're cruising Mt. Hood, Aspen or Stowe | | | | circulate. Get your gloves too tight and your fingers |
| your winter ski gloves must create a design balance | | | | will get colder. |
| between warmth, flexibility and good looks. If your | | | | When Mittens Are The Bee's Knee Top Choice. |
| body core temperature drops even a fraction of a | | | | Outdoor adventurers all know that deep-freeze |
| degree, then the first parts that your body begins to | | | | winter temperatures are best dealt with by a 2-in-1 |
| "sacrifice" are the extremities beginning with your | | | | mitten plus liner system. You get better insulating |
| hand and feet. Message? You gotta look after your | | | | properties plus you reduce total surface area of |
| hands, and keep the blood flowing, at whatever cost. | | | | exposure unlike the full-exposure finger gloves. |
| Space Age Materials - Low Volume Incredibly Warm. | | | | 2-in-1 mitten plus liner systems also give you the best |
| All the latest materials technologies have burst onto | | | | flexibility and temperature control. Keep both on in |
| the winter snow sport glove market. Abrasion and | | | | the lowest temps...or use just one when the |
| tear resistance is delivered by the high grade nylon | | | | temperature moves above 32-degrees F or if your |
| fabrics such as Cordova. Center of the palm and | | | | "work output" levels rise, such as with high-aerobic |
| finger, needing sure-grip, receive specially treated | | | | snow shoe or cross country skiing. |
| water proof Pittard leather patches. Meanwhile | | | | |