What's the difference between ski gloves and snowboard gloves?

Question

I've been doing a little online browsing and have come across a website that sells ski gloves and snowboard gloves. What, if anything, is the difference?

They pretty much look to be the same to me...

For the record, I ski and board, so would one type be better or more versatile than the other?

Answer 1

snowboard gloves come higher up your arms and tend to be thicker while as Ski gloves ar short, thinner(so you can grab poles) and more flexible.

Answer 2

Snowboard gloves have reinforcing on the knuckles.

Answer 3

I ski and use "snowboard gloves" but they are the same as many ski gloves.  

The main difference is that snowboard gloves will sometimes have built in wristguards.  

You can get ski or snowboard gloves with extra padding and extra wear resistant material.  Both come with high or low cuffs.

Answer 4

In reality...nothing more than style and color. There are high guantlet (how far up the wrist they go) ski gloves and low gauntlet ski gloves...same thing for snowboard gloves.

Yes, some have extra padding here and there, or some reinforcement on one place versus another...but essentially they are all fairly similar.

That being said...they will all be similar depending on what they are made of. A cheap pair from K-Mart made of non-waterproof material will not be as good as pair from a ski shop....generally.

Having said that, the best pair of gloves I bought in the past two years were $20 leather work gloves with a waterproof membrane and a Thinsulate liner. I bought them to wear when I was running the snowmaking machines...I ended up wearing them skiing too. Mountain Hardware wanted $80 for a leather glove that wasn't even half as good. I also don't generally wear "ski gloves". Most days I wear a thin pair of Gore Windstopper N2S liner gloves. If it gets cold I put on a pair of OR Pro Ice Climbing mittens.

Answer 5

I know there are snopwboard gloves tha are specifically freestyle gloves that have reinforcement in the palms so that were you to grab your board in the aire your rails wouldnt jack your gloves up, i have seen them with built in wrist guards neither of these would be usefull for skiing other than that I don;t know what the difference would be