warm gloves: opinions on Swany sx-15 x-over glove?

On 2004-12-07, uglymoney penned:
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 13:07:42 -0600, "Monique Y. Mudama"
wrote:

My body and head are not typically cold -- it's just my fingers and toes.

I have the same problem, but my hands don't sweat unless I am hot, so I
don't have that problem with soaked gloves. Perhaps you have hyperhidrosis?
Maybe try using some anti-perspirant on your hands before a ski day and see
if that does not cut down a bit on the sweating/resulting cold.

Ick, gross!

It is an idea, but somehow it weirds me out.

On cold days I use some gloves from granite gear, reasonable, and warm as
hell. I've never had cold hands with these gloves.
http://www.granitegear.com/products/...ts/index.shtml
Other posters have their fav's.

Yeah. I'm not going to wear anything without trying it on. I want to be sure
the fit is right.

Also avoid caffeine if you can. I can't.

I do, actually. Caffeine does a real number on me, and I get addicted to it
very quickly. So I keep away from it almost all the time. If I drank a coke
once a day for three days, I'd be in trouble.

--
monique
Longmont, CO

On 2004-12-07, Mary Malmros penned:

There are a few non-cotton sports bras out there. Take a look at
title9sports.com. They now have a category called "best wicking bras" that
are non-cotton.

I'm just not willing to order stuff without trying it on first. Especially
bras. Some of those things are designed as torture devices, I'm sure of it!

Still, there's a women-specific active clothing store on Pearl Street Mall. I
guess I'll have to hie myself over there in my copious spare time.

--
monique
Longmont, CO

On 2004-12-07, lal_truckee penned:

I suppose you have considered the possibility that un-readable and faded
labels may indicate reduced wicking qualities and it might be time to
purchase a new uh, garment? My good ol' Wallace Beery Patagonia expedition
top fails the wicking test completely these day, due to excess wear and some
tear - had to finally replace it a couple of years ago; I'm still
heart-broken.

You do have a point, though I believe these garments are only a year old. The
suck thing is that a good sports bra runs over $30. That's a lot to spend on
underwear, especially when you're fairly active and need a lot of them.

--
monique
Longmont, CO

On 2004-12-07, Dave M penned:
uglymoney wrote:

A lot of people with cold hands say they have Raynaud's disease.

[snip]

If it is that, simple asprin will help (or so claims the M.D. wife who also
claims to suffer from Raynaud's) as will a shot of Irish Whiskey, your
choice.

Too simple not to try. Could you ask her about the dosage, please? Like, is
this a once a day thing, or is it something I need to take an hour before
skiing, and the effects last a few hours?

--
monique
Longmont, CO

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
especially when you're fairly active and need a lot of them.

Synth drys quick - just dip it in the sink to rinse the sweat-salt out,
and hang it over the heater - good to go, only one (maybe two, if you're
lazy) garments needed.

On 2004-12-07, Ollie Clark penned:

One tactic a ski instrcutor told me about ages ago is to spin your arms
around like a windmill if your fingers get cold, it forces the blood to them
and warms them up. If your body is warm but your fingers are cold this works
really well. Suprisingly well in fact - about 15 seconds is all it takes for
my fingers to warm up. You can do the same with your toes by swinging your
legs (obviously not like a windmill unless you're very flexible!)

This is awesome advice. I must try it.

Not sure I want to do the leg thing, though. My knees are pretty sketchy, and
just the combined weight of boots and skis pulling on my legs if there's no
footrest makes them ache in a hurry. The sudden increase of weight on my legs
when the lift pulls me off the snow hurts, too.

--
monique
Longmont, CO

On 2004-12-08, lal_truckee penned:
Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
especially when you're fairly active and need a lot of them.

Synth drys quick - just dip it in the sink to rinse the sweat-salt out, and
hang it over the heater - good to go, only one (maybe two, if you're lazy)
garments needed.

Maybe I'm just girly, but I'd rather run sweaty undergarments through the wash
before I wear them again!

--
monique
Longmont, CO

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

Maybe I'm just girly, but I'd rather run sweaty undergarments through the wash
before I wear them again!

I bet you're hard to travel with - why, I once went around the world
with only two pair of shorts and t-shirts, one pair of Levis, sandles, a
camera, and a wad of money - good enoough for months om the road ...

No skis though - wasted trip. I'd do better these days.

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

On 2004-12-07, Dave M penned:


uglymoney wrote:





A lot of people with cold hands say they have Raynaud's disease.



[snip]



If it is that, simple aspirin will help (or so claims the M.D. wife who also
claims to suffer from Raynaud's) as will a shot of Irish Whiskey, your
choice.



Too simple not to try. Could you ask her about the dosage, please? Like, is
this a once a day thing, or is it something I need to take an hour before
skiing, and the effects last a few hours?



Apparently this is the same idea as taking aspirin on trans-Atlantic
flights to prevent the deep vein thrombosis or some such. For skiing and
flying she takes a normal dose (two or maybe three but I'll ask) on the
way up the hill in the morning (or on the way to the airport) and claims
that it should help. I have never seen her take a second dose during the
day but you know how sneaky those druggies can be. She has also gone to
boots with heaters built in (Nordicas, I think but they are too far away
to verify). Apparently warm boots first thing, when she first puts them
on, helps to at least delay the onset of the worst of the
pain/numbness/complaining/hot choc. breaks as the blood supply
collapses. That seems to help as much as anything for her at least. She
had some after market warmers that occasionally heated her foot up too
much but she was unable to feel it because of the numbness -- got some
"burns" a few times. She used to, at least in staying on the hill
applications, heat up the inside of her boots with a hair dryer
otherwise they were always planted right next to the heater vent in the
vehicle. YMMV

Oh, you meant the whiskey -- of course. Start with one shot of the
Irish in your coffee in the morning (decaf is best as noted but wholly
unreasonable from my perspective) and titrate up from there throughout
the day. HTH

Dave M.

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

snip

My body and head are not typically cold -- it's just my fingers and toes.


As a final resort you could try boot heaters - not too expensive, and some
folks swear by them.



Definitely a possibility I'll be exploring next week, when I look at new
boots.



You might consider the boots that have the heating elements built into
the liner rather than the after market HotFeet type product. The liner
option gives you more heat all over rather than just on the bottom of
your foot which is not where the bloodflow is coming from anyway. Plus,
the ones that my wife bought have a nifty car lighter adapter that lets
her heat them up on the way up the hill since she regularly forgets to
plug them in the night before. There is an AC adapter also sp she can
plug them in at luch on the really cold days -- assuming that it wasn;t
a stupid El Ni~no year with no winter at all and certainly no snow (shut
up, Utah).

Also, make sure that the boot fitter checks for boot pressure over those
spots where you should feel your pedal pulse most strongly like on top
of your foot, right above the arch -- but she/he/it should do that anyway.

Dave M.