where to buy SUPER WARM mittins -- like for climbing Mt. Everest?
Or for a mid-winter trek across Antartica, in a 40mph wind?
Especially for long-thin-armed people where blood flow to the hands is fairly slow. Especially the older you get.
Not only where to buy, but WHAT to buy?
(For me, after 10 minutes in 15degreeF outdoors, it only FEELS like I'm on an Antartica winter trek!)
Thanks!
David
snipped-for-privacy@panix.com (David Combs) wrote in news:jg1jpv$69e$ snipped-for-privacy@panix2.panix.com:
L.L.Bean?
With severe arthritis in my wrists, I use rechargeable electric gloves. Once you use them, you'll never spend a lot of time in the cold outside without them. Got them as a gift (so long ago that I was stilling skiing then) but they look like this:
I think you can find Chinese bargain models on Ebay and elsewhere for under $60. They don't put out a lot of heat - they just counter the chill, sort of. Keeps my hands from getting stiff in the cold.
-- Bobby G.
Many years ago I saw a presentation on Antarctic type apparel from the Army clothing research lab. When you got into those extremely cold temperatures the only thing that would work on the hands or feet were battery operated warmers. Circulation to extremities is poor and surface area is large and no amount of insulation can keep warm.
This was a long time ago and maybe the chemical hand-warmers would be effective too.
Provided you are not so tight that only dogs can hear you passing wind.
Not only warm but very durable. The pair I have now are at least three years old and by the looks of them they will easily last another three years. I'm outside for at least an hour and a half every day walking with my dogs. Those glove have had a workout.
LdB
For me, fit is everything. Can't have restriction. You could first put on a pair of reflective mits. Work like a space blanket, but breath.
Greg
You might take a look here:
They have glove (not so likely that they have mitten) liners with silver threads in them. They are so warm, I can't wear them, at least not when I've actually been out. But if it were colder, I suppose they'd be great. They were cheap too, and I bought mine from one of those kitchen/home catalogs that have been run out of buinsess by the web. The important word is liner.
The ones I have are white, with visible metallic threads. They were also selling socks of the same style. white with metallic.
I once bought silver threaded, very thin things you put on before the glove. Layers!
Greg
Now owned by Sears, it's all China-made garbage. I'll nothing else from LLBean. Cabela's ain't much better. I recently returned their alleged Alaskan Guide parka, it being heavier than warm.
nb
Google for "expedition" apparel, gloves, etc.
I read boiled wool is king, but for climbers who must constantly remove mittens to get that itty-bitty finger hold. I want to buy a pair, plus get over-mittens shells, too.
some links:
nb
Nonsense.
"L.L.Bean is a privately held, family-owned company. We do not release financial and operational information beyond what you will find here and we do not produce an annual report."
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OK, I stand corrected. Thanks fer that.
OTOH, I've bought a few things from LLBean. I hadda send back their "wicked good" slippers ($60) cuz they 1) started losing alleged shearling wool --after 6 wks-- like a chemo cancer patient, and 2) caused such severe itching as to become unwearable (I'm not allergic to wool). I also bought one of their alleged "20 below" down coats. Nice coats....until one reaches 20F and starts feeling the chill. Perhaps I missed where they defined "20 below". Last time I checked, in US vernacular, it means 20 degrees F below zero F! As if to larf!
Sorry, but LL is a long way from the hype. OH!...btw, I hadda justify my reasons for returning the items to get free return shipping. If my reasons were not up to their standards, I hadda pay for return shipping. I didn't both with the down coat, jes giving it to my daughter in CA, where it rarely gets below 32F. She loves it.
nb
On 2/13/2012 3:53 PM, notbob wrote: ...
Well, that may be--I've never bought anything from them because I've always thought from the first I ever saw a catalog/ad it seemed far too expensive and targeted to the "yuppified" crowd.
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