tl;dr I'm looking for suggestions on winter gloves for someone with short, fat fingers & meaty palms.
Use cases: ice climbing or ski touring or skimo racing. I'm not looking for a glove that can "do it all," I'm just looking for options in any of these quiver slots. I'm the kind of loser that has no problem owning 10 pairs of gloves. I'm also open to liner/shell combos if anyone has experience with that.
In the past, I've always had to sacrifice dexterity for warmth. When I have bought a pair of gloves that actually fit in width/thickness, I can hardly do anything with them because the fingers are so long. When I try to size down for dexterity, my fingers get squeezed and therefore get cold.
To date, my only solution has been to look for a glove that is largely natural leather, and size down. Basically, the leather stretches over time and I eventually have a nice glove that is decently warm and fits well. The best example of this is my old pair of (now discontinued) Outdoor Research Ascendant gloves. Those are leather in the palm and sides of fingers, with Polartec Alpha and Pertex Quantum on the back of the hand/fingers. I kick myself every winter day for not buying multiple pairs of these when they were in production.
To replace my OR Ascendant gloves, I tried the Arcteryx Venta AR glove; which seemed similar enough. However, I've never had a pair of gloves that truly suck the warmth out of your hands like the Venta gloves. I've forced my fingers to freeze in them for many a resort-uphilling day to try and break them in. Unfortunately, I just don't think they're going to work out. The design of them is basically a full fleece liner glove sewn into the leather and softshell outer glove. I believe that this fleece glove is just not stretching enough, and still squeezes my hands.
Looking forward to hearing suggestion from anyone else with short, thick fingers and hands! Thanks in advance.