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"Sally Johnston" wrote in message ... Hello group can anyone suggest good effective gloves and footgear as my hands and feet chill very quickly even at -5f sure would appreciate some info. Jim.J Check out the Zanier Heat GTX gloves with batteries. I have tested them and thet work great! www.zanier.com rgds dickie |
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Sally Johnston wrote: Hello group can anyone suggest good effective gloves and footgear as my hands and feet chill very quickly even at -5f sure would appreciate some info. Jim.J My feet tend to be overwarm, so I can't help you much there. My hands, however, get cold at the slightest inclination. I have Reynaud's Syndrome, which is a fancy name for "we don't know why, but some people's finger tips decide to shut off the blood flow when they get just a little cold". As a result, my tips, especially my index fingers, turn white and then blue when exposed to anything below 50 degF for more than 10 minutes. It's really annoying. As a result, I have a pair of glove liners with me pretty much all the time. Once I get warmed up and moving, I can ski without gloves - at that point, I'm happy to radiate heat out of my hands. But as soon as I stop, the gloves go on. At the moment, I'm carrying and wearing some WindStopper N2S liner gloves from Mountain Hardware (the "Transition" model). They are quite nice, abrasion resistant and avoid wetting out. I have a Patagucci shell glove that goes over them for colder temps or wetter conditions (they have a gauntlet and are waterproof), and am experimenting with half-mittens sized to go over the liners (the sort where the front half of the mitten can flip backwards) for alpine climbing. The particular model isn't important, but the material selection and fit is *very* important. I have stubby fingers and don't like extra material at the end, so it's sometimes difficult to get a good fit. Leave some room to avoid restricting blood flow and to provide an insulating cushion of air. You may end up trying, buying and giving away many pairs of gloves to find something that works - I did. I always have a spare pair of gloves in my pack. I usually have two different weights of gloves in my pack, in case it gets a little colder or a little warmer. It's pretty damned annoying, but I'm getting used to it. Dachstein mitts are great, but I prefer a set of super thick fleece mittens and OR gore-tex overmitts for them. The fleece mittens are warm enough that I can't keep them on indoors. They keep my hands warm, but I have pretty much zero dexterity with them on. Good luck, chris |
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Oh yeah. You can attach chemical heat packs to your gloves at the wrist
(on the underside, where the blood vessels are more exposed) to help heat your hands. Duct tape works great. This is an extreme solution, admittedly. |
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Christopher A. Kantarjiev ) wrote:
: Oh yeah. You can attach chemical heat packs to your gloves at the wrist : (on the underside, where the blood vessels are more exposed) to help : heat your hands. Duct tape works great. : This is an extreme solution, admittedly. there's actually a commercial version of this, it's an elastic wrist-band with a pocket for the shake-n-warm. doesn't jive well with ice-axe leashes, but works with poles (and leashless tools). |
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It's made by Crazy Creek. It's called Crazy Therma-Band. It definitely
works as I just purchased it and am wearing it as we speak. EXCELLENT product. -- Peter "On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude." Lionel Terray |
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has anyone had experience with heat shields (http://www.warmfeet.com)?
since i got frostbite at the end of last season my feet are incredibly sensitive to cold. heatshields seem like a good idea, but do they work or are they just gimmicks? (Daymiller) wrote in message ... Multiple layers will be more efficient, with a windproof outer and thermal insulation of some sort in an inner mitt probably as warm as you'll get. Just make sure these layers are not restrictive to blood flow, they must be "loose". Heat tablets work also |
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(dave) wrote:
has anyone had experience with heat shields (http://www.warmfeet.com)? No experience with them personally, but they appear to be simple radiant heat shields. I'm skeptical, since they don't provide any conductive insulation to speak of. To prevent conductive heat loss, consider a neoprene layer on the outside of the boot: http://www.1-outdoors.com/Dry-Guy-Bootglove-Alpine.asp I've been using a thick CoolMax sock liner under wool mountaineering socks for a couple of years, and my cold toe problems haven't resurfaced. You may not have enough space in your boot for that much sock, though. -- terry morse Palo Alto, CA http:/www.terrymorse.com/bike/ |
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I second Terry's comments on both counts. Bulk that traps dead air space is
the way to stop conductive loss and that means you need sufficient room to use same without cutting off circulation of blood. For teaching snowboarding, where, when working with beginners, a lot of time is spent not moving around very much, I use a boot that is a half size too big in order to wear a light wicking sock (CoolMax -- me too) and a heavy ski sock. Tommy T. "Terry Morse" wrote in message ... (dave) wrote: has anyone had experience with heat shields (http://www.warmfeet.com)? No experience with them personally, but they appear to be simple radiant heat shields. I'm skeptical, since they don't provide any conductive insulation to speak of. To prevent conductive heat loss, consider a neoprene layer on the outside of the boot: http://www.1-outdoors.com/Dry-Guy-Bootglove-Alpine.asp I've been using a thick CoolMax sock liner under wool mountaineering socks for a couple of years, and my cold toe problems haven't resurfaced. You may not have enough space in your boot for that much sock, though. -- terry morse Palo Alto, CA http:/www.terrymorse.com/bike/ |
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Terry Morse wrote:
I've been using a thick CoolMax sock liner under wool mountaineering socks for a couple of years Correction: make that a _thin_ CoolMax sock liner. BTW, here are some photos from last week at Tioga Pass: http://www.terrymorse.com/ski/trip/tpr0401/ Nice conditions, stable snowpack, some fresh snow one day, and nobody was up there. -- terry morse Palo Alto, CA http://www.terrymorse.com/ski/ |
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In article , Terry Morse wrote: Terry Morse wrote: I've been using a thick CoolMax sock liner under wool mountaineering socks for a couple of years Correction: make that a _thin_ CoolMax sock liner. BTW, here are some photos from last week at Tioga Pass: http://www.terrymorse.com/ski/trip/tpr0401/ Nice conditions, stable snowpack, some fresh snow one day, and nobody was up there. _ I am so jealous. This flu has knocked me so far back this year that I'm still working on the "skiing a full day at the resort" stage. Anyway, as regards to socks, you have to make a compromise between skiablity and warmth. I've found that a just a thin Coolmax liner sock is enough with any plastic boot I own and in any weather I run into in the Sierra[1]. It can often be warmer to use less socks than more and thermofit liners are much warmer than the standard ones. _ If you do use the double sock approach ( and I do in leather boots ) then these socks are the warmest I've found. They are about the same price as Smartwool Mountaineering and work much better IMHO. They are the only socks I've found that don't compress much and get sloppy as the day wears on. http://www.techspun.com/ _ You can read my review of them here under the gear section. http://www.summitpost.com/ _ Booker C. Bense [1]- One of the advantages of a beer belly is that you get cold a lot slower and my internal furnance is generally set much higher than most other people. What I find "warm enough" might not work for most people. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBQAWVlmTWTAjn5N/lAQFsbwQAkcMT2wGopXs4OyRGlOQRwv7/36WqP+eF awkrEWESNDhBNho+KTknQD/itBhYn4eJiZ8iipI4H6rZjjmhzurzBjq7ZOc9NaOo VBO1yEjSiyGCs8Kh0ov4hVDoWDv5qMqvyGjyHjHnuyseoJmdU8 WvC+Eypd1dpcI2 UMznlo6TAZc= =cOF0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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