Serious Hestra GTX Ski Gloves

Ali James
Reviewed: 18 March 2005

WISH THEY WORKED

Good design, enough insulation to be warm but still pretty dexterous.
Tough leather palm and reinforcements.
Wrist adjustment works well.
Tough nylon outer, shows no wear from skiing.
No problems with breathability.

No waterproof, simply they leak, a lot and had to be wrung out frequently in rainy Dartmoor.
Do not dry fast, dry in about 5 days when they get properly wetted.
Pretty expensive.

It’s a shame that these gloves don’t work in wet weather, cold but dry they’re fine and are great ski gloves but anything outside those conditions and they act like sponges and actually suck water out of the air. At ski gloves they would get 4’s all-round but for more than that they seriously lose they’re way. Gore Tex just seems not to a good option when it flexes a lot, maybe stretchy GTX would work in better in gloves? Otherwise great gloves let down by being total unwaterproof. For this price I expected a lot, maybe too much.