How to keep your hands WARM and COZY while hiking, in any condition!
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2022
- Keeping your hands warm during hiking and in camp despite the weather being awful, wet and cold is important! With this small tips and tricks and the experience from Andrew Skurka you can make sure you will never again have cold hands!
For sure! I'm not an experienced winter hiker but for 3 seasons I believe the setup I use is great... but for the colder season I had to look into what others recommend and what’s better than listen to the super experienced Andrew Skurka and to give his best recommendations and advice in the matter.
Together with my own experience living in Sweden I believe that the setup presented in this episode will make your hikes more comfortable and that you don’t need to worry about cold hand ever again.
For more information about Andrew Skurkas reviews on the SHOWA 281 and 282... and RAHHINT Winter Gloves, follow the links below!
RAHHINT Winter Gloves and webshop:
rahhint.shop/
rahhint.shop/products/fleece-...
Andrew Skurka
andrewskurka.com/
andrewskurka.com/review-showa...
andrewskurka.com/review-showa...
HESTRA
www.hestragloves.se/
www.hestragloves.se/runners-a...
www.hestragloves.se/merino-wo...
DECAHTLON Overmittens
www.decathlon.se/
www.decathlon.com/
www.decathlon.se/p/158553-166...
GREAT TIPS, Advice, Insights and information ( links )! Nice job 👍👍
Four-glove system: 1) White nylon dress-gloves for desert sun. 2) Kuiu merino gloves. 3) OR Versaliner (just the shell portion). 4) EE Visp wpb mitts.
All four carried up-front in hip-belt pockets. All four layerable/stackable, depending on conditions. System is so light it can and is carried 3.5-seasons.
Sounds like a great and versatile setup…I will look into the gloves and see. Thanks and good tips 👍🏻
This was nicely filmed and elaborated bud! Great work here 🙌🏻
Thanks a lot for those kind words 😊🙏🏻
The 3-season gloves that are always in my pack, along with an emergency bivy, fleece hat, merino baselayer, and light down jacket, are Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) Mercury insulated gloves. They’re not waterproof but if I end up wearing them it’s because I’m stuck outside overnight and will be in the emergency bivy with all my layers on.
Our winters in Maine are cold-dry, so waterproofing protects you from snow melting on your gloves or from being forced through the fabric from wet trekking pole or tool handles. Being cold-dry, insulation works better. In moderate-heavy exertion (hiking, snowshoeing) I’m comfortable down to -15C or so with my The North Face Denali fleece gloves or EMS Mercury gloves. They both breathe very well so my hands stay dry. They’re lightly water-resistant at best, though, so I wear them when my hands aren’t likely to get wet.
For colder temps (-25-30C air temp is about the lowest I’ve been in, but wind chill is another story LOL) I wear EMS Ascent Summit waterproof breathable gloves. I actually bring 2 pairs, one is on my hands and the other is in an inside jacket pocket. If the pair I’m wearing gets wet from sweat I switch them out. I’ll usually have 3 or 4 pairs of gloves in all with me in winter, because with heavy exertion the Ascent Summits will be too warm. Plus for whatever reason sometimes you’re just cold in temps that you’re normally warm in, so having warmer gloves/mittens is a necessity. Down mittens are on my list!
Sometimes I need better dexterity at those temps, and fleece or softshell gloves will keep my hands warm and dry enough for a time.
I’m a mechanic by trade and have had to change starters, etc outside on log trucks, airport fuel trucks, deicing trucks, and other ground support equipment down to -25C or so, and the way to keep your hands warm is to keep your core warm. Heavyweight wicking longjohns, a hooded Carhartt insulated jacket under insulated bib overalls, and insulated arctic coveralls over everything gives me about 20 minutes of hands warm enough to work. Your blood stays warm all the way to your fingers from all the insulation (and toes! Don’t forget your feet!) I’ll wear light cotton gloves just to keep my fingers from sticking to metal, and just pull my hands into my sleeves for warmth every chance I get. It’s understood that the job will take several times as long in those temps, and 2 hours to change a starter is better than frozen fingers keeping you from working all day long due to the pain as they thaw and the blisters afterward.
Thanks Phil for sharing your experience, cold temperatures and keeping your hands (and feet 😄👍🏻) warm is essential and like you say…if the core is warm it’s much easier… well said 👍🏻
I hear small rocks on my Mr. Heater and keep them in my pockets. Stays warm for many hours..
Hi, great video. Where did you manage to get the Showa 281 blue rubber gloves from in Europe?
Hi 👋🏻 Chris and thanks !
I actually wrote to Showa at their website (showagroup.com) and as it’s in Swedish I guess they are doing deliveries here as well. (Just an order for an sample )
But also available at web stores, like grolls.se, procurator.net, swedol.se or globaltools.se.
If any EU shops I don’t know 🤷🏼♂️ but available at Amazon.se so probably also other Amazon sites.
just like with the rest of your body, its a 3 layer system - inner, middle, outer - the function of the inner is light insulation, moisture transport and handleling being moist/wet - so something like a wool/mix liner works well, wool for the termoregulatory properties is has - mixed with synthetic for durability, fit and moisture transport - middle layer is for when it gets cold (below 0 for me - depends a lot on the person, some freeze their hands very easiliy) this is for insulation, it should still have some of the properties of the inner, moisture transport, but main on is warmth - an open knit fleece - like the omm core mitts, or something like the brynje arctic mitts works well for light winter - colder you need synthetic insulation, like the Rab xenon mitts, or enlightent equipment torrid mitt - outer layer is wind and water - for layering a mitt again works best - and for hiking you dont need fine moter control like for ice climbing or similar - so a shell mitt - like the decatlon you show, or an OMM kamleika mitt or similar -
Very good and detailed answer 👍🏻 couldn’t have said it much better myself 🙂
Hej Robert, thank you very much für your informative videos, which I really like, although I am no UL-hiker myself. As I am always looking for gloves to keep my hands warm when paddling in colder, wet conditions, I was very curious about the Hestra gloves. I ordered one pair and was a bit astonished when I saw that there is no neoprene used in the gloves, but a 3-layer polyester. Did Hestra change the materials used, do you know about this? ATB Heinz
First, thanks a lot 🙂👍🏻 and regarding the gloves…probably bad research from my point, I really thought it was neoprene 😬 but like you said, a 3 layer interlock-polyester. What the difference is I don’t know…I like them anyways 🤷🏼♂️😄 and I hope they will work for you to. Have you tried them out yet?
@@roberthammenrudh Not yet, got them yesterday... but you said that they keep your hands warm even when wet? That sounds good enough to give it a try... keep going with your channel, like every single video you make Perhaps you should do one about your experiences with the new Altra Olympus, how they work for you...
@@moosemap again thanks 😊 and yep, they keep me warm also when wet and more or less the only glove I need for 3 seasons. Below +5 C during the evenings it can be nice to bring something thicker and also to stay dry…but otherwise I don’t.
@@moosemap also…forgot! THANKS for suggesting content and sure, doing a video about my experience using the Olympus is a good idea 👍🏻 maybe for next week 🤔 we’ll see!
Only mittens work for me if temperature goes below 0C, especially while in camp where physical activity is low.
Yes mittens is the best, and especially in the outer shell. Wish there was any rubber mittens to find but what I know there ain’t any! 🤷🏼♂️
I use Black Diamond Waterproof Overmitts in the winter time on top of a winter glove or mitten when dealing with snow. At 94 grams they are a little bit heavy for 3 season use, but can still be nice in cold autumn rain. Packing them with me tomorrow as the forecast is chilly and rainy.
An other good video
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