What is the best combination of mittens/gloves/liners to keep your hands&fingers warm during winter skiing?

Question

What is the best combination of mittens/gloves/liners to keep your hands&fingers warm during winter skiing?

Answer 1

All answers I have seen are good. May I suggest getting silk hand liner to go under mittens. Try Cabela's. It is an outfitter with resonable prices but only high quality products. They are online.

Answer 2

A pair of snowboard mittens that have a small pouch in them for a heat pad is the best I've found. It depends on the weather and the snow or precipitation that is coming down. My hands and feet will  get cold and I teach skiing for 4-8 hours a day.  As the weather warms in the spring I wear a thin pair of ski gloves for a more sensitive feel of my ski poles.

Answer 3

Mittens are definitely warmer. I've been an expert skier for over 35 yrs. & I've skied in extreme called so I know by experience. You should consider two choices. One is to buy down filled mittens. They can be expensive but they will last a life time & will keep you warm even in sub zero temperatures. Try not to buy them from a ski store since they're over priced. I would suggest that you find a clothing store that carries down filled projects & I'm sure you can order them on-line. Your second choice is to but a lined mitten that is extremely long. In other words, buy a lined mitten that covers your wrist & goes partially up your arm. Now they sell them with wrist straps & straps at the forearm. This keeps the snow & cold out from coming in the arm or wrist. I have both kinds of these mittens & my hands are always warm. Wal-mart may have some of these or a good sporting goods store.

Answer 4

This is what I have used as a liner glove now for the past 5 seasons: http://www.shopatron.com/product/part_nu...

It is very thin and very windproof. I wore them alone (without a cover shell) in temps down to +9F before I got cold.

I wear them under a Gore-Tex mitten shell from Outdoor Research. Mine are no longer made, but these are close:

http://www.outdoorresearch.com/site/corn...

I have worn these in New England on winter mountaineering and skiing trips when the temps were well below 0F and the wind was going around 40mph. (That's about -40F) and I was just starting to get cold at that point.

I like wearing a thin glove under a mitten shell because it is much warmer than a glove alone and if I take off the mittens, I have a thin glove underneath to keep me warm while I fuss with zippers, buckles, binding parts, etc. etc.

Answer 5

I thought, just having gloves on would suffice, but now I hear it is best to wear mittens.  So I'm thinking it might have some validity to that because, with gloves the fingers are alone and not able to generate enough warmth (and circulation) on its own.  But having mittens, every digit can huddle together for warmth.  Just to make sure i would wear gloves and mittens at the same time.

Answer 6

I don't ski a lot, but I am a mailman in a cold weather climate. I like to wear a pair of cutoff gloves under pair of regular gloves and then a couple pairs of sweatbands on my wrists to keep the circlation through my hands.

Answer 7

I actually wear a pair of x country gloves while down hill skiing.  I found that with the layers or thick gloves, my hands would sweat, then get cold which is not good.  I would suggest a pair of like ua wicked glove liners and a pair of good mittens.