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Looking at replacing some sweaty cheap gloves bought in a rush last year with some decent ones. Looking to spend up to £70 (maybe slightly more)
Hit me with some suggestions.
I'm a skier so no brightly coloured pipe gloves I'm afraid!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hestra, look around the web and you should find various styles within your budget. Find a pair to try on though as I find I take a size smaller in Hestra gloves than in any other brand.
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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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Are you going over or under the jacket sleeve?
That's the question - for me it's gauntlet (ots) all the way.
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temitchell, Aldi have some gauntlets in at £5.99 (?) They seem very good so I picked up a pair. There is even an 80's day glo option 
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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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Alright? I got a pair of North Face 'Montana' gloves last year - they were £49.99, breathable, warm and they have a pocket in the back for your lift pass. Skiied in all conditions in them and they've not put a foot wrong.
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| AndAnotherThing.. wrote: |
| temitchell, Aldi have some gauntlets in at £5.99 (?) They seem very good so I picked up a pair. There is even an 80's day glo option |
I might well pick up a pair, all the rage in the world cup teams this year I hear
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But Hestra Heli gloves and never buy another pair...
Pretty much every guide/instructor I saw in Val d was wearing them!!
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Another vote for hestra, I have mittens hubby has gloves and they are brilliant, worth every penny, think we paid around £60.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Leki leather slalom look, warm, long, cognitiv, dries overnight.
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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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Hestra are superb. TNF Decagon are a really good budget pick. Well, more budget than the Hestras, anyway! 
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I've not tried my pair out yet, but I bought Minimum_1 Helly Hanson gloves this year and she had been in Kids Hestra's. After a snowdome session she pronounced that it was the first time she had skied in a snow dome with warm hands. I also bought a pair of HH to try next year and will experiment with them with interest given my daughter's report on their performance.
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You know it makes sense.
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I have a pair of Marmot gauntlet gloves with a removable inner. They have been bomb proof and although they were expensive (£70) I have had them for probably about 7/8 seasons. There is a bit of wear on one of the thumbs but this has been re-inforced with good old trustworthy Gafa tape. I have a lighter pair of Black Diamonds for Spring ski-ing, but when they eventually fall apart I will probably go for another pair.
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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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RichardJHJ, Sorry to burst your bubble but most ski instructors belong to a ski-pool which supplies gloves to them usually free to gain endorsement, and you see it works.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| LukeRibs wrote: |
| Alright? I got a pair of North Face 'Montana' gloves last year - they were £49.99, breathable, warm and they have a pocket in the back for your lift pass. Skiied in all conditions in them and they've not put a foot wrong. |
I hadn't noticed the lift pass pocket on mine, I'll have to give that a try next month
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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'd be a bit wary to put a lift pass in a glove. I've lost a few gloves over the years, but never lost my jacket!
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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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LukeRibs, Elmer, I thought the pocket on the back of a pair of gloves was to slip a hand-warming packet into not a lift pass.
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Megamum, It is on some but on the North Face Montana the pockets (one on each glove) are definitely advertised as being for lift passes. I had a look at a pair on Boxing day as I was in the market for some new gloves.
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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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Corky, I though a packet of 3?
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got the north face montanas in the end, Ellis Brigham currently have 25% off all north face gear (Bristol do at least) which sealed the decision. Was a close call between the hestra gloves but the discount did it for me. Thanks for all the help!!
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Good decision! 
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temitchell, There is also 25% off all TNF on www.ellis-brigham.com until 1st January. Just bought a pair of the Montana gloves for £37.49 + p&p 
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Phil_D, would love to spend some more on full TNF attire but I'm just going to set about my old salopettes with some duck tape, after a rocky end of season fall last year. Her indoors seems to think money is for other things than skiing!!
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temitchell, salomon soft shell gloves. expect to pay around £35. Hestra are too warm, more for girls and the anaemic
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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temitchell, Same here! Just ordered some White Rock salopettes recommended on here for £50 so will be interested how I get on with them in a months time.
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