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Neoprene?
I am open to suggestions.
I need warmth, dexterity, and, don’t want the gloves to get wet too easily from handing stuff that might have snow on it.
Good to 20 degrees F when sedentary.
These would not be for hiking, just camp chores (cooking, setting up tent, taking down tent, digging with snow shovel, etc).
Thanks!
Thin dish-washing gloves aren’t very warm but they’re better than nothing, completely waterproof, and maintain your dexterity and grip.
Around the house, in the yard, pouring concrete, and on a fishing boat, I use the much heavier flocked-on-the-inside rubber gloves. But they’re pretty heavy.
If I can be careful to keep them moderately dry, I use fleece liner gloves. If I can’t keep them dry, neoprene ones.
For 20 degrees F. what David said
“If I can be careful to keep them moderately dry, I use fleece liner gloves.” I have 20 year old pair of LLBean stretchy liner gloves that are about the thickness of Polartec 100.
For cooking I often use fingerless rag wool gloves.
When it gets cold, I use the Polartec liners inside a BPL waterproof breathable mitten. I also sometimes bring possumwool gloves to use inside the BPL mitten. But when the possumwool gloves get wet, they are slippery.
Although this topic has been debated here, I find if a glove is not too wet, I can dry it out by placing it in the inner pocket of my synthetic puffy, and sometimes will bring it inside my sleeping bag at night. This technique can work for a one or two night trip but is not recommended for longer trips because I think it risks contributing to the moisture buildup inside my bag.
I recently bought some heavy duty nitrile gloves, 10 mils, to use while assembling the roll up stove pipe for my wood stove. I was surprised by how much warmth they added over my liner gloves. Still had plenty of dexterity and good for working around wet snow. I bought large enough so they weren’t too tight so I was able to put them on and take off fairly easily.
^^ The venom steel nitrile gloves are tough enough and very light – 8 grams each – but they will have a compression effect on all but the thinnest liners. Absolutely water and wind proof and bonus work on a touch screen.
I like the combination of a LW or UL liner glove plus fingerless mitts around and inside the tent. Over the years/decades I have used almost every fibre there is with the mitts and the best were [ and obviously now unobtanium] a combination of wool and polypropylene I got from REI 30 years ago. I have a collection of single mitts because for some reason I keep loosing one. I should keep a spare but I usually forget.
I’ll need new mitts for this coming Southern winter and looking at the cheap Fox River.
heat 3 gloves. Just order the shell, use whatever liner you want. That’s what I did. I went with the non-leather shell.
“ The venom steel nitrile gloves are tough enough and very light – 8 grams each – but they will have a compression effect on all but the thinnest liners. Absolutely water and wind proof and bonus work on a touch screen”
I bought XXL for the extra room. I wouldn’t want them that big if I were undertaking surgery but they they were great for timing knots and setting up the stove. Nice to know they will work on a touch screen.
Neoprene hunting/fishing gloves usually wear our in the fingers fairly quickly if you are handling things like logs, rocks, etc.
Heavy duty rubber work gloves over light fleece gloves, as mentioned above, is good. Hardware stores usually have these rubber work gloves.
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I bought XXL for the extra room
Thanks for that info. The only one’s I’d seen were the one size fits all. Good news that they come larger. Checking that out online I see they also market a 12″ outdoorsman model for like field dressing or whatnot. Not sure I’d need that longer cuff. The larger size ought to eliminate the compression problem. Now if they just become available again post covid or whatever.
+1 to Nitrile work gloves! I had just bought a pack of them to install a fireplace insert & liner last weekend, and was amazed with how “grippy” they were and how coordinated I felt with while wearing them. I could even tie & untie knots on 3mm rope while wearing them. I’ll definitely be trying these out under my mitts.
And I can work the iPhone with them, too!
You don’t want those permanently lined Showa glove for multi day use. Too hard to dry. Better to get the same type of thing with a thin lining and use liners that you can pull out to dry. They are very sturdy, we even used them in the plywood mill for handling veneer and they would last a couple of weeks. What I really want is pair of mitts made this way.
I like the military liners in both the thinner poly or the thicker wool, the local ace hardware has them for $3 to $5. They work well by themselves in cold if its not wet.
I’ll have to try some of those venom gloves with these liners. Maybe some of the unlined Showa and add a cuff.
the local ace hardware has them for $3 to $5.
That must be some ‘in-house’ special offering which is pretty common with Ace. Our local store for ex has a toy ‘shotgun’ with a plunger on the end of the barrel that has a battery powered bang/report when you pull the trigger. Irresistible and instantly reduces us all to 10 year old boys. Bam Bam!
But I can’t find those liners on the Ace website. But yeah that’s the idea. Looking forward to getting the nitriles in a larger size than the ‘one size fits all. Too tight with a thicker liner. The polypro looks like it would work. The thicker wool might be just right with a glove larger than “one size fits all”
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