 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi
I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm an lower intermediate skier. I can ski confidently on blues and greens, but require more effort and concentration to ski red in Tignes. I have a problem with my ski gloves. After 3 hours skiing, my gloves on the inside are wet. Presumably with sweat. I have tried adding a pair of icebreaker glove liners in merino wool and they have helped a little, but the gloves are still wet. I have tried some cheap ski gloves and some north face ski gloves and found that the latter are no better than the cheap ones.
I'm not normally a sweaty person and only use deodorant on very hot days as I don't seem to sweat enough to need it. Even when taking part in outdoor bootcamp classes. Outside skiing, my hands are usually too dry and I need to keep on using hand cream to keep them moisturised.
Are my gloves at fault or do I simply have sweaty hands when skiing? Can anyone recommend any ski gloves which may alleviate the problem?
At the moment, I take 2 pairs of ski gloves with me and change them over at lunchtime. When I get back to the chalet I dry them using my boot warmers.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Carolli28
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Buy you gloves in goretex,
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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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Take your hands out of your gloves while riding the lift or in line- at least long enough to stop them from sweating. Good luck
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Gortex gloves will make a difference if the gloves are getting wet due to perspiration, this may be daft but I wonder if it could be related to the moisturiser you use on your hands, could some be rubbing off on the inside of the gloves making them less breathable ?
Taking your gloves off where possible will probably help as well allowing both the gloves and your hands access to fresh air even for a few minutes might make a difference
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The shells of your gloves just aren't very breathable. Its like wearing a plastic bag.
I don't really have any useful glove advice; easiest solution is to go hunt down a pair with goretex waterproofing and removable liners... I've no idea how much that might cost you, cos I still have a pair of goretex gloves I was given years ago which don't seem to want to die. Visit your local outdoorsy shop and see what they have lying around. There's no need to pay a fortune.
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| this may be daft but I wonder if it could be related to the moisturiser you use on your hands, could some be rubbing off on the inside of the gloves making them less breathable? |
I'm assuming the OP probably isn't using any moisturisers in combination with the gloves, because it is cold, dry air that dries skin and requires moisturising... underneath a windproof layer, the problem doesn't occur. I'd also be slightly surprised if a waster-based moisturiser could render breathable fabrics useless, but I'm no surface chemist.
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My daughter's hands get so hot that every time she takes her gloves off, her hands are steaming in the cold. (cue many photos each year).
We try and make sure that she takes her gloves off at regular intervals throughout the day, just to prevent the insides getting too wet (and then prop her gloves up on a radiator overnight to re-dry them).
She manages to get 2 seasons out of one pair of gloves, before the "smell" gets so bad that we have to throw them away.
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I don't know if it will help stop hands sweating in the first place, but last holiday I experimented with rubbing a little Vicks vapo rub onto my hands prior to putting my gloves to cope with the issue of gloves that end up smelling. I think it's Masque's suggestion IIRC. I can report that it seemed to work, but only lasted for about half the day and I found a need to re-apply at lunchtime. The other thing was remembering not to rub my eyes once rubbing it into my hands.
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carolli28, Could it be your gloves are too small or too tight ? I have a pair of Marmot work gloves that are a neat fit, and they make my hands sweat something rotten when skiing (they are ok otherwise). An older, much looser pair of gloves are, I find, much better and they are only occasionally mildly damp at the end of the day. Might be worth trying a looser fit.
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deerman, agreed, I get on much better with gloves that aren't too tight.
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You know it makes sense.
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carolli28, alternatively...
There's no rule about how many pairs of gloves you should wear in a day. I normally get through one pair, but my record is four pairs in one day. So what?
If changing your gloves at "half time" works for you then don't worry about it.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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carolli28, have same problem, so have more than 1 pair of gloves and believe me I have ried everything . . .
Agree with FlyinStantoni!
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Poster: A snowHead
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carolli28, ....what's all this about GoreTex? .... I have the same problem. Forget Goretex gloves...like a plastic bag after a while. I use gloves which are:
- slightly too large
- do not have a membrane
- have a heavy fleece interior to wick away sweat
- more than one pair
best so far:
nordbo coldstore worker gloves (ebay 2.50gbp, websites around 22gbp) made by Hestra, top glove makers
Rab Baltoro guide
Mountain equipment guide gloves
Marmot 'work gloves'
all far better than membrane gloves
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Could there be another cause of carolli28's wet gloves? Consider falling a lot and putting gloved hands into the snow. Also consider picking up and carrying snow covered skis. Both can lead to lots of snow melting on the gloves. I have had wet gloves from these causes.
I read somewhere that you should not wring out the water from wet Gortex gloves. The reason being that water drops are forced through the Goretex membrane.
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valais2, just searhed on ebay for nordbo coldstore worker gloves but got no hits, do you happen to know the seller you got them from???
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I had a similar problem, but eventually found a pair of Surfanic gloves with a little vent on top and have had no further problems since, picked up another pair from the Surfanic shop in October on sale at £19.
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Carolli,
what you need is a simple 2 layer system meaning one XXL ski glove and underneath it you wear tight fitting 5€ thermogloves or reall thin ones according to how cold it it is at that point. Of the latter you always bring 3 pairs. During skiing you bring them in your ski backpack and change them during a break (and after drying out your hands ofc). you'll never have problems again.
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