AllyG wrote:I bought these gloves the other day:
http://uk.thenorthface.com/tnf-uk-en/shop-by/activity/skiing/men-s-montana-gloves.html
I got them in Two Seasons and I had a discount for being a member of the Ski Club of GB. The full price is £50!
I don't know if they are any good, and they were very expensive. However, I thought it was about time I bought some better gloves as my old ones had got torn a bit from carrying skis, and I reckon I got a bit of 'frost nip' on the end of one of my fingers in Tignes (when Cat got frostbite in her big toes). I got a white blister which has now peeled off, leaving new skin underneath - something like a burn.
When we were in Tignes I bought liner gloves on the Thursday because my hands were so cold, and they did seem to help quite a bit. But the temperature up the top was -20C and it was supposed to be -30C with the wind chill :shock:
Strangely enough the rest of me was quite warm - oh, except for the end of my nose which I had to try and keep covered up on the chair-lifts!
Mmmm, nice. Especially in black. Exactly the same thing happened to my old pair. They were about 10 years old, so I think i got my money's worth....
It was also in Tignes, earlier this season, that the old pair began to let me down. I think we had very similar conditions. I too managed to improvise with a pair of Lidl's soft-shell gloves used as liners. I had never experienced 'proper' cold hands before and it was a bit scary. Didn't get any blisters or bits falling off, but I reckon I would have been in trouble without the liners.