 Poster: A snowHead
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Can someone please remind me what the “idiot straps” are called for attaching your gloves to your wrists, and where I can get them from, cheers 🙂
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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elastic, the market. Needle and thread also needed.
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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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tie them together with string ran down your coat sleeves, like your grandma did for you when you were 5 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Leashes!
I have them on my Hestras and they're great. I don't care if I look like a 5-year-old.
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| endoman wrote: |
| elastic, the market. Needle and thread also needed. |
...exactly what I did , best 5 minutes work I've ever done!
Any yes, they are called idiot straps!
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Good for being on a lift and taking a glove/mitt off temporarily without looking like the idiot who has lost his/her glove on the lift.
I love them.
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+1 for 5 mins with needle, thread and elastic.
Small cheapy carabiner or 2 also highly recommended to attach to each other, backpack, pole straps, belt loops, etc, etc.( Highly useful if have to take off in high wind for a start  ).
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Cheap Ebay cord locks, also very useful.
EDIT: probably more relevant if making the webbing type rather than elastic.
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| HoneyBunny wrote: |
Leashes!
I have them on my Hestras and they're great. I don't care if I look like a 5-year-old. |
Me too. Never scared to take a glove off to get a sweet or something on a lift. Brilliant things. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I bought camera wrist straps, a pound or two on ebay for several
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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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You got to be a idiot if you haven't got them
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Simply the best and cheaper than buying new gloves
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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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As above ^
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks all.
Market and elastic the obvious solution but time is a factor (I live in the middle of nowhere!)
I have some homemade ones currently but the elastic is thin and I don’t trust it not to snap!
Like others have said I like to be able to take gloves off on a lift without becoming that idiot that drops a glove 🤣
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Gentlemen, be careful with these wrist straps. For simple tasks like taking a photograph I leave them hanging from the wrist. Now when urinating you (as I have done) end up peeing into your glove.
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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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My jacket has plastic D-rings just below the elbows for the straps (a feature for ice-climbing).
My gloves (Millet) came with the straps. However, I always forget to use them...
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| djf wrote: |
| I bought camera wrist straps, a pound or two on ebay for several |
+1 for the ebay camera strap purchase, however I found the actual straps too short for ski glove purposes - so I discarded the strap and use bootlaces threaded through the wee plastic spring thing that came with the camera straps.
Ideal, as I stupidly threw my last ones away with my knackered gloves a year ago 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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The Hestra straps are only a few quid. I have them on all my gloves.
When peeing it's better to go with the hang free method rather than risking a JohnE experience. Though this can be more difficult on the colder days...
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@johnE, Very good!
| KenX wrote: |
Simply the best and cheaper than buying new gloves |
But, but, but... It's new gear! What can be better than buying new gear?
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| johnE wrote: |
| Gentlemen, be careful with these wrist straps. For simple tasks like taking a photograph I leave them hanging from the wrist. Now when urinating you (as I have done) end up peeing into your glove. |
We would assume you did not try doing that from a chair lift.
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| ysb33r wrote: |
| johnE wrote: |
| Gentlemen, be careful with these wrist straps. For simple tasks like taking a photograph I leave them hanging from the wrist. Now when urinating you (as I have done) end up peeing into your glove. |
We would assume you did not try doing that from a chair lift. |
On the plus side, you have a pre-warmed glove when you put it back on 
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My ski gloves (racer ladies) came with elastic wrist straps which are handy when you need to take a photo on the chairlift. The wrist straps are great but the gloves have a hole in the finger after 3 weeks skiing (and were cold at the tips in -20 last week even on the fingers without the hole!) so I would not recommend that brand!
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