Good glove, but weird mitt

By Scott Pendleton Ranked #155 - Ski Gloves January 6, 2012

First, I should say these are a good quality glove. The softshell is nice, the leather is high quality. The gauntlet is great, I much prefer outer gauntlets than fiddling with my jacket over my gloves. Tightening and loosening the gauntlet is easy with the draw cords, and there's even a rigid shell to keep them straight over your cuffs. The liners are ok, though I have my own glove liners I prefer (either thin wool gloves for not so cold or thick fleece gloves for cold). I've had these down to 15F night skiing and been perfectly happy; they do the job and do it well.

What confuses me about these gloves, though, is the three-finger/pseudo-mitt design. In theory it's great, you have a mix of the dexterity of a glove with your pointer finger free but the warmth of a mitten with your remaining three fingers bunched together for warmth. But...the inside of the glove lining has the remaining three fingers separated by nylon lining inside the shell. This isn't the wool liner glove, it actually is the sewed in nylon lining of the softshell. It is impossible to hold your three fingers together in the mitt part because there is a glove sewed inside there, which boggles my mind. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the mitt? It eliminates the warmth bonus, anyway. I even thought about tearing the seams out and re-sewing it, but it's just sewed in there too tight.

So...this is a good glove that somehow manages to eschew the benefits of the three-finger design due to a stupid, stupid design decision. It is a good glove and I'll keep it and use it for that, because it's still pretty warm, but it's not as warm as it could be. The sacrifice of the last three fingers isn't a big deal because I don't really use them independently anyway, but keeping them seperated inside the mitt still leaves me wondering what could have been...

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