 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi All.
Ive searched the internet and cant seem to find heated gloves/mits for tots, much like the Hestra Power mits you can get for adults.
Is there such a thing??
OK so I know you can get the tea bags, but they don't seem to be as effective.
Anybody know of anything out there??
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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no... and I'm slightly surprised they'd need them?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ordinarily wouldn't bother, but off to Lapland for crimbo/new year and it'll be a bit chilly. Im probably being a bit techy and trying to find a solution to a problem where the tea bags will suffice, but my experience is the don't tend to last long and cant be bothered with the faff of changing them out all the time
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Mittens and silk liners should do it.
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having taken a lot of children skiing over the years and racing in temps as low as -37 we've always used the 't bags' its not that they don't work its you need to use them properly. After many trials we've found the best thing is to take them out of the packet give a good shake and put them into the gloves...... at breakfast, ie when still indoors and not being worn, then by the time you're ready to go out the gloves will be very warm!! we buy them by the bucket load from Sport Direct, you can get them for about 50p a pair if you get your timing right. 
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Likewise we use silk liners, t-bags and mitts. I think our last box of ?40? t-bags from costco was about a tenner. Previous one was about £15 from Amazon. As @iskar, says, get the t-bags in early with plenty of time to warm up.
Boots on the other hand are a PITA. I think I'm going to end up with electric insoles for the kids, having failed on everything else (not enough oxygen for t bags).
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@PaulC1984, The Hot Rox was just an example, there are also a number of different sized ones from Energy Flux, and I am sure others as well.
I've used both Hot Rox and Energyflux and they work well.
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@PowderAdict, Thanks muchly ill have a google 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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What about small neoprene mitts that you can get to go with kids wetsuits. V toasty.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I've found that teabags vary a lot in quality. the good ones easily last 8 hours.
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@PaulC1984, rule 5.
My first ski outing aged 5 ish was in welly boots clamped into pressed steel toe vices (yes, my feet did bleed - and leather ski boots were rented for the next days) on wooden skis.
Heated gloves? We were lucky to have a heater in the car.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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One way to help avoid frozen fingers is activity. They don't get cold toboganning, pulling their toboggans back up the slope.
I had leather boots and wooden skis too, learning in Norway in (ski length was determined by stretching an arm above the head - for beginners we were given skis as high as our fingers). Don't remember the bindings but they were nothing like today - kind of wires and springs.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I had wooden skis too. The bindings consisted of a long circular spring with a handle/clip on the front of the ski. You'd but your foot in between the toe and heel clamp and flip the clip forward to tighten the spring. The release binding was then tied around your ankle so the ski never left your leg. If you took a bad tumble your skis would come off and batter you over your head, arms and body several times before you stopped. All good fun.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I was born and raised in THE most northern US state of the 48 contiguous - hint: look on a map, it ain't Maine or Washington. It's still my primary home. Routine winters realize weeks of negative 10, 20, 30, 40 + below. Not great skiing but the best skating in the country, hands down period. Any good parent sees to it that junior or juniorette are well dressed to go and we were and did. Every kid loves winter, snow, ice and the rest. Get the kid a good set of winter clothing starting with long underwear and work from there.........
Hands........? Mittens always do a warmer job to that of gloves but none of us ever liked "choppers" as we called them and so it was gloves. Ya, our hands sometimes got cold but it was no big deal.
As one posted..........., activity is key and kids notoriously run warm. How many times I'd come in for dinner with red hands and face....... I'm still going strong................................
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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your skis would come off and batter you over your head, arms and body
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That was reason 1. why I had a helmet at age 6. reason 2 being wooden T-bars which would do the same and 3. adults who couldn't carry their skis properly.
Reason 3 is still valid 40 odd years later.
@SarahB, back then, (in Scotland at least) pretty much everyone's bindings looked and functioned like that, the only difference being that adults had releasing toes (and you could on some models set the spring loops to release). Wikipedia has this very wrong "by the late 1960s, the cable binding had disappeared from alpine skiing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_binding as cable bindings were still quite apparent (if my youthful mind has it right) in Scotland in 1971.
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@PaulC1984, buy what the locals buy? I can't imagine they want their kids getting frostbite either. I doubt they use heated mitts but there's probably a better choice of true cold weather gear available locally. It's certainly easier to find cold weather gear in regular shops in Sweden than in the UK, and Gothenburg isn't really much colder than the northern half if the UK.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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good tea bags should be fine, I was in Finland last year with my 8yr old and despite skiing 9:30am till 7pm most days they were still warm when I took them out of his gloves every evening - it was around -20c most of the time. 50p a pair from kickbacksports/sportsdirect normally.
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