Good gloves?

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Its considerably colder this year than I can ever remember.

Pretty set everywhere else, but my hands are almost always cold. Any recommendations?

Prolly go with wool, but VERY open to suggestions, just nothing too bulky. I have a pair of snowboarding mittens that are great, but need something I can wear running errands and what not and still have some semblance of dexterity.
 
Look for anything that has a gore-tex shell and thinsulate lining. Gore-tex is amazing against water! And thinsulate oz to oz is very efficient! Wool is awesome but thicker and can be itchy.

Check this link out:

http://www.rei.com/search?cat=4500254&cat=40005935&jxWaterproof=Yes&hist=cat%2C4500254%3AMen%27s+Gloves+and+Mittens^cat%2C40005935%3AMen%27s+Insulated+Gloves^jxWaterproof%2CYes

And these are the best gloves on the planet...but they are also the biggest rip off:

http://www.backcountry.com/arcteryx-sigma-ar-glove-mens

Alternative:

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Clot...Rprd754099&WTz_l=SBC;BRprd754099;cat104002380

These are some of my favorites! Great price but you have to like the moss camo:

http://www.cabelas.com/mens-insulat...-thinsulate-8482-deluxe-shooting-gloves.shtml

This is my grand daddy of them all!

http://www.cabelas.com/mens-cold-we...-958E-DF11-A0C8-002219318F67&mr:referralID=NA
 
I just bought a pair of Geier gloves with merino lining. Made in Washington state, a good fit (go a half-size up if you get a lined pair).

They're pretty warm walking the dog, down to about 15°F for about half an hour at a go. They're also pretty dextrous for their toughness, and would make good work gloves.

I would suggest SmartWool merino glove liners if you want a little additional warmth.

For more warmth, you need to go to a technical arctic glove, IMO. Random ones I've owned have disappointed me by being colder than my slim leather + Thinsulate driving gloves, despite all the cinch-down flaps and handwarmer pockets.

I'll stick to lined leather, and add another liner if necessary. If it's too cold for lined leather gloves, you really ought to be wearing mittens: there's a point of diminishing returns where separate fingers just stops making sense from a warmth/articulation standpoint.
 
If you already have cold weather mittens then...

I really like Army Surplus black leather shell gloves with a removable and replaceable woolen liner.
The back of the glove has a very good cinch to keep the glove tight to your palm and helps dexterity

And the price is good
 
Moose 45 had a great pair of army issue gloves that did well for keeping the hands cold, yet had enough dexterity for outdoors chores using knives . Maybe he can put his two cents in here.
 
I have a pair of mantella usmc glove liners and they are the best gloves I've had for light gloves that are warm and dexterous
 
Alan2442 said:
North Face Soft Shell (APEX) Gloves
http://www.rei.com/product/794353
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The Apex gloves are a bitch to get your hands into if theyre moist because of the fleece liner that sticks like crazy. Same thing if you pull your hand s out.

Ive got a pair of Colombia gloves myself. Nothing fancy. Theyve got some thermal refelctive inside. They are not too bulky and not too expensive which is a plus, cause i always end up losing one or burning it at the campfire.

They do a good job at keeping my hands warm, even more so if im moving or doing some light work. Thats when the refelctive inside works well at refelcting my bodyheat.

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I'm a big believer in buying gear that will serve a multitude of tasks. Every gear decision I make, I ask myself...is this a one-time/one use item or can I use it to do several things when in camp or in the wild?

So I use Nomex Flight Gloves as my primary "all-around-all season" camp/woods gloves. They are semi-warm, comfortable, the leather palm works well for wood cutting and hauling/construction chores, they're great around the camp fire since they don't melt, or burn. I can hold my cook pot with them in order to eat. For all around they work great.

The only down side is they're expensive, they are not designed for daily chores and can wear out in a season, and they're not super warm in low temp situations. So in the winter I throw in a couple pair of Mil Surplus OD Green Wool Liners - $8 for a bundle of 6 pair at the army surplus store. If I lose one I'm not overly upset and they're light and small enough you can stuff a pair in a jacket, pack and keep a pair in your car so you "never leave home without a pair!" When one pair is soaked, I can dry them by the fire without concern while I slip into another pair.

For subzero or severe temps you may need something more and something more specialized but there is always a trade off when you go that route. I still tend to stick with Wool because it works well when wet, you can work around the fire/camp stove/camp pot and they dry easily where as these new wonder gloves don't dry very well. And has been stated some are a bugg'r to get your hands into when wet. Not with wool.

These new wonder gloves don't seem to hold up well to snags or when hauling/working with wood in my experience and I know the gloves dissolve very quickly when a spark touches them or when it is extremely cold and you grab a cook pot and didn't realize it is still hot - don't ask me how I know. Two years ago I had to sew up a fella's pair of high performance gloves that had two large burnt holes in them when we humped in 4 miles in the snow to our elk camp for an 8 day hunt. Fortunately for him I have a spare pair of the wool liners.

The problem for most of us is testing in real or simulated "survival" conditions. Most of us back the car up, walk a few hundred yards and then camp or practice our survival skills within eye and ear shot of a vehicle. If we have a gear malfunction we can go to the car or go home if we're uncomfortable. I always apprecate learning from those on here who take the risk to go backpacking or go in far enough that if they have a problem they have to work around it and also they speak up from experience about gear selection because they've BTDT.
 
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What I usually do is bring along my huge gauntlet mitts while wearing a pair of simple lined leather gloves. Can't tell you how many good pairs of gloves I've melted grabbing a hot pot off the fire or some other silly thing. In fact the leather work gloves do the trick about 80% of the time and when I get cold then I exchange them for the big mitts that toast my hands right up.
 
holygoat said:
I just bought a pair of Geier gloves with merino lining. Made in Washington state, a good fit (go a half-size up if you get a lined pair).

They're pretty warm walking the dog, down to about 15°F for about half an hour at a go. They're also pretty dextrous for their toughness, and would make good work gloves.

I would suggest SmartWool merino glove liners if you want a little additional warmth.

For more warmth, you need to go to a technical arctic glove, IMO. Random ones I've owned have disappointed me by being colder than my slim leather + Thinsulate driving gloves, despite all the cinch-down flaps and handwarmer pockets.

I'll stick to lined leather, and add another liner if necessary. If it's too cold for lined leather gloves, you really ought to be wearing mittens: there's a point of diminishing returns where separate fingers just stops making sense from a warmth/articulation standpoint.
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do you know where to buy these other than David Morgan? They dont offer the full line there. I've had one pair of geier work gloves. They were hands down the best gloves Ive ever owned, fit and construction, leather quality. Especially the fit-no weird, off size fingers, no extra long pinky or oversize thumb
 
If you want warmth and dexterity three fingered gloves are great but hard to find. I have an older pair from Cabelas.

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I bought a pair of Carhartt leather driving gloves that I wear with a merino liner. Awesomeness. I also have a pair of Oakley gloves, but the are cold on the backside of my hands. Super cold temps I break out the arctic GI trigger finger mittens.
 
Briarbrow said:
do you know where to buy these other than David Morgan? They dont offer the full line there. I've had one pair of geier work gloves. They were hands down the best gloves Ive ever owned, fit and construction, leather quality. Especially the fit-no weird, off size fingers, no extra long pinky or oversize thumb
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You can buy them through Amazon, or from Prospector Outfitters in Alaska or Schnee's in Bozeman, MT. I went with Schnee's this time, but I've bought other things from the other two in the past.

An additional note on sizing, because I didn't find too much info out there when I bought mine: I'm a size 8.5", and the size 9 lined gloves are pleasantly snug. With an additional liner, or the thicker lined gloves, I'd probably go a full size bigger. For unlined gloves you can probably buy true to size.
 
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