Glove suggestions for cold hands

A pal of mine with very bad circulation used electrically heated gloves as Beth suggests, and also socks.  With their help she was okay with winter mountaineering which suggests they work acceptably well...

For a lower tech solution, Dachstein woollen mitts take a lot of beating.  They're as warm as modular high-tech mountain mitts but about a third to a quarter the price.  Summat like this...

Pete.

I too suffer Bryan,

I've got loads of gloves. To a degree, it's trial and error.

The ones I favour for cold/wet are Extremities Ice Guantlets. They are on Terra Nova's Clearance section at £40. I use these for skiing/winter walking. 

Two pairs of Buffalo mitts (1 inside other) are also warm. I agree, too, with the idea of backup mitts/gloves when stuff gets wet

As suggested, warming pads are good to have too.

Oops, TN only have a small size left in the Clearance zone.

Otherwise they are £80!

Or even the Extreme mittens (which you'd expect to work very like the Buffalo ones.). Certainly for dog walking a big pair of mittens over existing fleece gloves should work nicely enough. Pretty affordable too.

My solutions consist of silk liners + wool liners + some large snowboarding gauntlets over the lot.  All of them not too tight.

Also a mate that sailed with a hand injury swore by having an extra layer on his injured forearm, he had the sleeve off of an old fleece jumper.  The idea was to keep the circulating blood nice and warm before it got to his hand.

Conversely I roll my sleeves up if I want to cool down.

Steve D

> Also a mate that sailed with a hand injury swore by having an extra layer on his injured forearm,

As a Raynaud's sufferer, I'm inclined to agree with that suggestion.  In my experience, it's more a case of being careful to regulate core temperature and keep the forearms warm; Raynauds causes shutdown of the arterioles in the forearm and wrist, which I've come to realise is why I like long-sleeved tops, and very rarely roll the sleeves up to cool down, whereas others do this as the first choice.

I've struggled over the years, with my hands, they are my weak spot. I've abandoned walks and gone home due to the discomfort that I would suffer. A couple of years ago, I was advised to try Buffalo Mitts; as mentioned on the thread already, they are great. It's so reassuring to have something that can go on and prevent the awfulness of sore hands. Warm when wet, weigh nothing, quick to do their job; a vital bit of gear for me. I've also been very happy with some Outdoor Designs Tyroll mitts, they did a great job, last Winter as an 'all the time' glove. Once it get cold enough, for me anyway, I'm always in Powerdry liners. Various Mitts, as mentioned, and some Outdoor Research fleecy type gloves as an excellent 'mid layer', to go over them. I've tried the forearm warmth focus, this has worked well, in conjunction with my various gloves. I use an old pair of dismembered Merino socks as arm warmers, always a long sleeve baselayer, too.

I watched a Bear Grylis programme, some time ago. He gave a demonstration as to the 'best' thing to do once your hands start going. It's common sense, when I thought about it, but, the opposite of what I did Rubbing/cupping/blowing on to them is bad, according to him. The thing to do is stand there and thrust your arms back and forth, up and down; to get the systems in them working. I now do this, I feel like a berk to be honest, and get some odd looks, however, my hands are a little happier for it.

Bryan, please turn your messaging on.

James

Cptn - re keeping arms warm - just remembered I was talking to someone in a shop about Paramo Torres sleeves. He was saying saying that some photographers find them useful for helping to keep hands warm whilst standing around for a long time in cold weather. This agrees with what you are saying -  may be a possible help as they can easily be worn on the move as well and easily removed when required.

 Could these be your first P***** purchase. 

 I also like Buffalo mitts - very warm. 

another vote for Buffalo Mitts - I can operate my camera wearing these. I wear an xl and have xxl for over them(or spare really) if really cold fingers (used this combo just once, but then I don't go polar/alpine in winter)

Outdoor designs Tyrol gloves are good n warm, but not so hot in the wet.

I use These Babies

Leather palms ....

Primloft  .....

Have used them over the last two or three winters and have yet to feel cold hands as yet in these and i too do suffer with cold hands and feet at the best of times.

Too the point now i have started to get cold feet now at this time of year at home ...

Well I started getting numb fingers and hands last winter during the cold spell. I'd been having a cold and slightly numb middle finger for years and solved that by pulling my finger out of the glove finger and folding it back into the body of the glove. Anyway last winteer it got a lot worse. So much so that I was sitting at work on my PC and my mouse hand got incredably numb, sore and tingly in fact it went all the way up my forearm. I was not cold at all. That worried me and I thought it was something like carpel tunnel syndrome or some kind of RSI.

Anyway I went to the docs and she told me reyanauds and printed some info off patient.co.uk and handed it to me before booting me out of the door after about 5 minutes. That is what some of thee GPs at my local surgery are like. Anway the info contradicted what she said but I carried on with her diagnosis. I went out looking for buffalo mitts and dacshteins. I was about to take the buffalo mitts to the checkout at Needlesports in Keswick when I saw Extremities Inferno Mitts for the same price of £29.99. Since my hands were between two buffalo mitt sizes and none were comfortable on me I got them. They also seemed to have features of mitts wtice their price. Anyway the best thing I have bought. It got me through the winter with absoluteely toasty hands. I wore liner gloves underneath and this allowed me to pull the mitts off and leave them dangling while I fiddled with zips, buffs, hats or whatever.

My recommendation is Extremities Inferno mitts. £30 of toasty warmth. They have webbing wrist straps and the long gauntlet easily covers your wrist and forearm so no cold gaps and they cover your ends of sleeves easilyand then there is a plastic cord end that you can still pull on with your mitt covered hands to tighten it to keep heat in betteer. Then when youu need to take them off at the opposite end of the mitt opening there is a flat fake leather tab to grip with your mitt covered hands or teeth as works best. On top of that they have cordlocked cords that go around your wrists so when you take them off they dangle around your wrist and don't get lost or blown away.

IME they have been the only thing to keep my hands  warm in cold weather.

Time to go wrote (see)

Well I started getting numb fingers and hands last winter during the cold spell. I'd been having a cold and slightly numb middle finger for years and solved that by pulling my finger out of the glove finger and folding it back into the body of the glove. Anyway last winteer it got a lot worse. So much so that I was sitting at work on my PC and my mouse hand got incredably numb, sore and tingly in fact it went all the way up my forearm. I was not cold at all. That worried me and I thought it was something like carpel tunnel syndrome or some kind of RSI.

Anyway I went to the docs and she told me reyanauds and printed some info off patient.co.uk and handed it to me before booting me out of the door after about 5 minutes. That is what some of thee GPs at my local surgery are like. Anway the info contradicted what she said but I carried on with her diagnosis. I went out looking for buffalo mitts and dacshteins. I was about to take the buffalo mitts to the checkout at Needlesports in Keswick when I saw Extremities Inferno Mitts for the same price of £29.99. Since my hands were between two buffalo mitt sizes and none were comfortable on me I got them. They also seemed to have features of mitts wtice their price. Anyway the best thing I have bought. It got me through the winter with absoluteely toasty hands. I wore liner gloves underneath and this allowed me to pull the mitts off and leave them dangling while I fiddled with zips, buffs, hats or whatever.

My recommendation is Extremities Inferno mitts. £30 of toasty warmth. They have webbing wrist straps and the long gauntlet easily covers your wrist and forearm so no cold gaps and they cover your ends of sleeves easilyand then there is a plastic cord end that you can still pull on with your mitt covered hands to tighten it to keep heat in betteer. Then when youu need to take them off at the opposite end of the mitt opening there is a flat fake leather tab to grip with your mitt covered hands or teeth as works best. On top of that they have cordlocked cords that go around your wrists so when you take them off they dangle around your wrist and don't get lost or blown away.

IME they have been the only thing to keep my hands  warm in cold weather.

pulling my finger out of the glove finger and folding it back into the body of the glove.

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DITTO .......