I've enjoyed the Black Diamond Guide Gloves over the last 6ish years - they make a normal glove and a 3-finger version. Sometimes they are too warm.

 

hey thanks for the reply Chusnowpar. I will check out the black diamond guide gloves. I have them in mind. and wasnt sure if I should buy them. but they look very warm and could handle the extreme cold. thanks buddy

 

The POW Sniper GTX Trigger converted me over from being gloves-only. I like the free pointer finger, and my digits stay warm in most cases except for night riding, but that's where hand warmers enter the chat.

 

The Dakine Kodiak glove (the one sale for like nothing, the older style with the Velcro that goes around the back of the wrist not the newer one that goes around the bottom of the wrist). It has primaloft, but it’s full wool wrap that’s very warm. This is going to give goat leather it’s very warm.
Or, if you want to look like a straight up kook, you can get the Rab guide glove.

 

Hi Camered, I have exactly the Dakine Kodiak. and I love it for like decent cold weather. But my hands get extremely cold when the temps drop and they turn blue. I really cannot tolerate very cold temps. Would love to try new gloves out.

 

I didn't like mittens either, but I didn't like cold fingers even more. My compromise has been to get glove liners that let me use phone and have fingers, then I pop my mittens on for riding or while I'm on the lift where it's cold.

 

You are specifically looking for a design called trigger mitts. Most brands make them. None will be warm in comparison to mittens. The answer is really learn to appreciate mitts. Gloved fingers are basically useless anyway. Everyone is convinced they need finger dexterity in their gloves but you really don't. Once you convince yourself to spend a season in mitts with gloved liners you will never wear anything but mitts ever again.

 

dang thank you Lab for your reply. Awesome info. Im glad i learned so much bout mittens today. I think I might go with mittens now. I truly sold me XD im tryna think of a scenario if I really need the trigger mittens. or should just go with mittens to save my fingers. they really get extremely cold until its uncomfy to ride.

 

Like Rorgaard said, liners with mittens is the way to go. I like the thin stretchy knit liners and I am a big fan of the Drop Gore-Tex mitts which are really quite reasonably priced for how much warmth they've got. The price is the same as when I bought them in 2022.

Roach Gore-Tex® Mitt

Roach Gore-Tex® mitts offer optimum insulation, warmth, and waterproof breathability. Shop our best snowboard gloves and mittens today.

dropmfg.com

 

I do have the dakine kodak and also wear wool liners under that. but i still get cold hands. i need to try out other gloves.

 

Tigger mittens.

 

 

https://www.snowboardingforum.com/threads/burton-ak-oven-mitt-gore-tex%C2%AE-snowboard-glove-review.272633/?post_id=3453806&nested_view=1&sortby=oldest#post-3453806

The [ak] Oven mitt has a gloved internal liner in a mitt. You can also get the [ak] oven glove.

 

Didn’t they change the design/construction from the previous which was good? I came to understand that the new version of Gore Tex in that mitt is not waterproof, rather it’s just for wind.
But I’m curious if the iteration is still warm

 

I’ve got the Dakine Excursion for the coldest of cold days… but hardly ever wear them as they’re too warm:

Dakine Excursion GORE-TEX Mitt

The Excursion is our workhorse mitt that keeps your hands warm and dry, day in and day out at the hill. A stretch-woven exterior and a durable leather palm add up to dexterity and a natural-feeling grip for on-the-go adjustments. It features a full GORE-TEX insert with Gore Active technology for...

ce.dakine.com

My coats have gators, and with a gauntlet going over the sleeve, I never get snow on my wrists and they’re double wrapped for warmth.

With the 230g primaloft insulation and 360g wool blend liner, I just can’t imagine anyone wanting more than that? (Same as Kodiak, but gauntlet style MITTS).

How cold is it? Maybe you should see a doctor about potential circulation issues?

 

At that stage I’d imagine the feet would be super cold before the hands (with the right gloves/mitts).
OP: If you’re too cold with your wrapped in thick wool, primaloft, gore tex, and the leather, then you should go to mitts or maybe there’s something wrong.

 

I came back to say you can buy electric gloves, but electronics can fail on the hill. I mostly just see old people with them.

 

You can also lose a ton of heat through your wrists. You can get away with gloves when you'd otherwise need mittens if you wear a wrist band to maintain that heat. Or if you have a base layer with thumb holes.

Amazon.com : wrist sweat bands

 

hey thanks for the tip. I defintely have those and use it for snowboarding. its just my fingers naturally get really cold at low temperatures. They dont get that cold in spring skiing though. Im gonna try the black diamond guides.

 

I dont know if that been said but
a very good option is to buy a good and pretty tight liner glove and a good pair of gloves a little to big/long for your hands. With both of them you should be fine.
If not, look at Kombi warm it up heated gloves.
Good quality gloves + heated system.

 

Hestra mitten or trigger mitts (what we call sloth gloves) are the best. A lot of people who work east coast ski areas with some times brutal cold days use them. Liner pops right out to dry overnight.

Electric gloves work. I know several people that use them. Expensive but worth it for people who need them.

You really need to be evaluated for Raynauds syndrome by a circulatory specialist. Raynauds excessively restricts blood flow to extremities in reaction to the cold, especially to hands and fingers. Your description exactly matches Raynauds symptoms. There are medical treatments if it is Raynauds.

 

Take cold showers & build a tolerance for the cold, but also dakine gortex gloves run really warm

 

I picked up some 686 Apex Gore Tex mittens on black friday. Last weekend I got to try them out and was pleasantly surprised with how warm they kept me. I also have room to wear a liner glove if needed. They also make a glove version in the Apex line.

 

Liner gloves are awesome, I'm never going back

 

Reynauds here....I used heated mittens and socks. Check out Ororo.

 

I have an ororo vest and my only caution is if you used active heating and the batteries did your day is over. If you're wearing good passive insulation there's no issue.

 

Hestra are obviously awesome but a great alternative is FreeThePowder. High quality, very reasonably price. RX Pro line is insanely warm

 

Never heard of that brand but look like decent gloves at a fair prices, like KINCO, but with the popularity of these lobster style mitts they’ve gone way up from just two years ago, especially Heatra.

 

I hate mittens as well but I have two pairs of lobster style mittens/glove thingys. One pair are by Black Diamond but they discontinued them 😩and the second pair are from Kinco. The only thing with the Kincos is that I could feel a slight chill coming through the fabric on the back of the hand, I resolved that issue by spreading SnoSeal not only on the leather but also on the fabric.

I’d suggest going to a shop that carries a couple brands of “lobster” mitts and give them a try, highly recommended you have the same dexterity as gloves but the warmth of mittens

 

I know many people like lobster style but... I don't.

The ones I got from Free the powder are super warm- too warm for most days so I end up with another pair of traditional gloves. I only take them on really cold days. My issue is that when it's cold enough (meaning cold + windy usually), my index finger ends up being cold and I end up lodging it with my other 3 fingers. It then feels like a subpar mitten, and they rarely feel like the "right" temperature.

I wish I went with one good pair of gloves for most days and a pair of mits for really cold days. I'm not into mittens but it's hard to beat how warm they keep your fingers when needed

 

One issue that I have with my Black Diamond Guide is that they are obviously too unwieldy to use with a phone (regardless of whether they are gloves or lobster), so I need to take them out when I want to use my phone or something that require a bit of dexterity. When I do that, I have very careful to minimise the amount of snow falling into it. I wrap the strap around my wrist to stop me from dropping them, but since it means they will hang upside down, the opening will face up allowing snow to fall into it. Inevitably it means that it will get wet, and though it is warm enough to cause problem, I am not sure if there is a better way around it?

Recently, I tried using pairing a cheap glove liner with an inexpensive mitt. The plus side is that it means that my hand never need to be fully exposed to the elements (cheaper liner is still much better than bare skin), and the combo is decently warm for the price. But then I encountered an issue. Like the Black Diamond Guide, the inside of the mitt will get moisture in it, though this time I have an extra barrier in the form of the liner. Great right? But at one point, it got so cold that the inside started to freeze. My binding also got stuck because of the cold, and since I couldn't get it unstuck with mittens, I did it while wearing the liner.. only to find that second later, I really, really struggled to get my hand back into the mitt because several part including the opening was frozen stiff. In fact, everything was frozen stiff and even after I managed to force my hand back in (under some pretty intense wind chill), I could only get it in about half way.

When riding hard I don't have too much issue with cold hands so I never really thought about a good system to keep everything warm and dry but I think I will need to think of something now.

 

No real substitute for having your fingers touching together like in mitts. I use the largest crab grab cinches I can find for fast on and off. But those are a hybrid mit with an index finger. I have 4 pair.