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Thursday, December 01, 2005
Waterproof Fleece Gloves - Sealskinz or Highlander  I was out on a hill in the past couple of weeks and, realising it's getting on for full on winter season, decided it might be a good idea to grab a pair of gloves on my way out the door. My normal ones lying by the coatstand are a pair of Sealskinz. This time though I couldn't find them so grabbed Nicola's Highlander waterproof fleece gloves. Now sometimes I dread wearing my Sealskinz. While they are waterproof and windproof, I just find them rather cold. Sometimes I'm warmer if I take them off. I don't know if it's a trick of the mind, but that's the way it feels. I had never really examined the highlander gloves before. Fleece on the outside, waterproof membrane inside that then a mesh lining for the membrane. Doesn't sound really the right way round - surely the fleece should be on the inside, with the membrane and a shell outside it? Anyway, not holding out much hope, I didn't put the gloves on until my hands were well and truly freezing after lunch, in the spindrift, up on the tops. You could have blown me over - 5 minutes later my hands were toasty. Couldn't tell you how waterproof they were, it was too cold for that, but certainly kept the wind out and gave me warm hands. I told my friends. They thought I was just trying to sell some gloves. "Honest guv' it's true, I prefer my wife's Highlander gloves to my Sealskinz". Sometimes you can't win. But at least I've got warm hands. Posted by bigcrags @ 10:07 AM
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Probably a bit late for this, but it was around 2 degC in the Glen and probably around -2 degC on the tops with wind at 30-40mph. - enough to give me a cold chin. Very late coming to this discussion, but I wish to add my comment. I bought a pair of Highlander gloves last spring and found them adequately warm. However I wore these when out walking in heavy rain in the Faroes last week and found they were not waterproof at all. I was using trekking poles, so my hands were not protected by the jacket at all, and after an hour or so of walking in the rain, the gloves were leaking. The same thing happened the next day. I was very disappointed. # posted by
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