Down Packable Glassing Gloves

[WeiserBucks]

The price!

Cold hands don't care about price.

 

[Whaledriver]

Check BD mercury mitts. My hands get cold easily. They solved my problem

 

[Marbles]

I have OR Alti mits, I usually only need the insulated shell.

 

[PineBrook413]

First lite down glassing mits are SUPER warm and weigh nothing. Only issue is they are fragile and have zero grip.

 

[BRTreedogs]

I bought whatever OR puffy mittens that were on sale last yr and im not overly impressed.

 

[BRTreedogs]

The OR cold front down mittens.
Wearing merino liner gloves under I had to leave my glassing spot and head for the truck. I thought I was possibly going to get frost bit.
+10 and windy

 

[WeiserBucks]

First lite down glassing mits are SUPER warm and weigh nothing. Only issue is they are fragile and have zero grip.

These make a decent fire starter, otherwise worthless in my opinion.

 

[Kspence49]

I like my Sitka blizzard mittens and they can be worn with or without a shell. Might be cheaper options out there I got mine on a pretty deep discount

 

[Loo.wii]

Stone glacier

 

[TxA]

FirstLite ones are warm for me, but they are limited in use as mentioned. No grip but are lightweight.

 

[snowymtnwolf]

The price!

Catch them on sale. Or somebody selling on here gently used.

I grabbed a pair of the Kuiu glommitt and I was shocked how good they were and with more dexterity than regular mittens.

My buddy had a pair and I tried before caught a fellow slider selling.

Also - look at the Stone Glacier gloves/mitts which accept liner underneath.

Again - they have been sold used on here for a good price

Good luck. Nothing worse than stinging hands from glassing in ZERO weather


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[THLR]

I have the Kuiu Superdown PRO glassing glomitt. A good idea, but the design lacks competence. (I was gifted a pair, not something I'd buy)

It is not a good design for working in cold weather. I don't use them outside the shooting range. A liability if you bring these into the backcountry believing your hands are protected.

The wrist lanyard. They got that one right. Working in cold weather means you'll take off your mittens a lot for short periods and you really want them secured to your body.

Normally you'd wear a leather palmed work glove for dexterity and reinforce this with a wrist-warmer. The Kuiu are too tight, so you need to go one size up for this to be possible

You don't split the mittens and isolate one or two fingers. That negates the purpose of a mitten: Retain heat and give you the option to ball the fingers into the hand and force blood circulation/heat.

Also, the cuff needs to be 1-2" longer in order to retain heat. Current design slides down and leak. The elastics are fine, but the sleeve is not.


This detail is is somewhat revealing and limits the mitten to quite warm weather. You don't puncture your raingear; this has the same effect in cold.
When you shoot you pull off the mitt with your teeth and drop is as it is secured by the lanyard... I'm not sure what happened here: It is a terrible design and if you INSIST on including this feature, don't do it.


I'm not sure if it's just my mittens or a the seams/manufacturing process/design flaw, but these side panels have less loft and are cold.

Lightweight? Not really, my Black Diamond shell mittens with Devold Nansen liners tick in at 220 and are superior for both heat and weather...

Almost every pair of mittens I own are better than the Kuiu, regardless of autumn or winter.

 

[Mike D Texas]

I’m way out of my lane here but Black Ovis has some as well.

I’ve never used any of them but just throwing out another option.


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[THLR]

Here's another picture showing how these mitten sleeves "creep" on the wrist and expose skin. They stay up if you don't use the elastic and you get less of a heatloss that way.

Not that it matters, the finger gets too cold long before this becomes a problem.

AND you cannot work with it in snow, as it comes in through the finger-hole, melts and makes you miserable.

Nothing wrong with materials or seam, but design is thoroughly incompetent for cold weather backcountry use.

 

[HingleMcCringleberry]

Big fan of the stone glacier altimeter mitts. I also have the Outdoor research down mittens.

 

[DiabeticKripple]

I have the first lite ones and in -15C my hands were sweating. They are warm.

A cause of cold hands could be your core temp. Your body pulls the blood from your hands and feet to keep your core warm, making your feet and hands freeze.