The North Face Montana Glove - Women's - 2006 BCS

These are well designed cold weather gloves. I get very cold extremities so for temps below 15 degrees, I would recommend the inserts. The gloves are nice and easy to maneuver- don't take a lot of time to break-in. There are several great features- wrist cinch, goggle and nose wipes, heat packet pocket, and adjustable wrist straps. I would recommend these as a great all around ski glove. For sizing, for any climbers out there, my hand size is about a #1 (+) camelot and so I got a small.

These gloves are great. I'm a wimp when it comes to the cold and I love these gloves! It's difficult to see in the photo, but in the top of the glove there is a flap just above the North Face logo. There is a zipper tucked in there that opens up a small pocket to hold a hand warmer. I put them in every time I go on the slopes and it's < 35 degrees or so and my gloves stay warm all day long. In truly extreme cold my fingertips get slightly chilly, but I throw them under the hand warmer in the bathroom and I'm good-to-go another 2-3 hours. I would usually wear a medium, but I purchased large so that the gloves wrist elastic can fit around my wrist guards for snowboarding. My first pair lasted 3 seasons of hard use, and I recently purchased my 2nd pair.

The first time I wore these gloves was during an incredible cold streak at Snowshoe, WV the week of Christmas. Temp was 2 degrees with -20 degrees wind chill on the first day. Even without a hand warmer I had no complaints until hour #3 and by then it wasn't just my hands that were cold! All week long I wore them without warmers in the insert and was quite comfortable. I'll never buy another pair of gloves that doesn't have a wrist cinch - you only have to drop a glove on the lift once to appreciate this feature.