What are the warmest gloves?

I have poor circulation in my fingers and I struggle with my fingers going numb in minutes when ice climbing or skiing.  I've tried lots of quality gloves (currently using BD Guide Gore-Tex single gloves for colder days and Stoic claw double gloves for warmer days), but I can't make it down a ski run without stopping multiple times if it's 0 degrees.

Yes I know mittens exist, no I don't want them- too little dexterity.  Claw/3-finger gloves are ideal but regular 5-finger gloves are good too.

Might want to go for electronically heated gloves and run them for 10-20 minutes at a time when you need the extra heat.

Ross Goldberg wrote:

Might want to go for electronically heated gloves and run them for 10-20 minutes at a time when you need the extra heat.

My OR heated gloves last a full day of skiing on the medium setting, which is usually enough - the high setting gets too hot, but great when that extra burst of heat is needed.

To the OP: yes, if your hands are that cold, get heated gloves.

Mark Straub wrote:

I have poor circulation in my fingers and I struggle with my fingers going numb in minutes when ice climbing or skiing.  I've tried lots of quality gloves (currently using BD Guide Gore-Tex single gloves for colder days and Stoic claw double gloves for warmer days), but I can't make it down a ski run without stopping multiple times if it's 0 degrees.

Stopping to what, exactly? 

0F is pretty darn cold, for either ice or skiing. The BD guide gloves kinda suck, horrible warmth for their bulk. I sold mine after finding they were both too bulky to climb with and made my fingers too cold anyway from overgripping as a result of said dexterity. I do much better now with BD punishers and similar profile Rab gloves. I also get pretty cold hands but have come to learn 1, its inevitable and normal to get cold fingers in winter and 2, cold hardening the fingers (ie acclimization) throughout the season does wonders. Keeping my hands warm while ice climbing has largely been a matter of technique and learning to shake out often and keep a loose grip on the tools whenever possible. 

For skiing on really cold days, I prefer a liner and mitts, the mitts having wrist leashes for transitions, though if I can do splitboard transitions with mitts on, any skier should be fine... lastly, impossible to have warm hands with a cold core, so make sure you're ticking that box... might just have to swing your hands hard  ¬‿¬

OR Alti Mitts or Alti Gloves depending on your preference. 

as Evan said, keep your core really warm. I have minor reynauds and the trick was wearing an extra vest beyond what my core needed to stay warm and my hands followed suit. Otherwise I use Free The Powder lobster claws to belay down to 5F. I use BD Mercury mitts if single ropes, skiing, or colder. I definitely have hand warmers in the mitts. Liners with both. And when it's my turn to lead my hands are usually pretty cold if it's actually less than 10 or 15F. Besides heated gloves, I don't think gloves exist, for me, that allow technical ice leads with warm hands below 10F.

Those guys who just did the north face of Jannu might have some insight. 

Andrew Rice wrote:

Stopping to what, exactly? 

I'd guess he means pulling his fingers out of the glove fingers and making a fist inside the hand portion of the glove. He may even mean taking  his hands out and putting them inside his jacket in his arm pits. I've done the former many times prior to getting heated gloves.

The warmest gloves are the ones having the most fun or something like that.

Marc801 C wrote:

I'd guess he means pulling his fingers out of the glove fingers and making a fist inside the hand portion of the glove.

Exactly. Currently I’m in the predicament of the mountains getting a foot of fresh snow tonight, but the temps/windchill being low enough that I’m worried about frostbite.

My core stays nice and toasty. I’m often hot enough to sweat while my fingers and toes are numb.

If heated gloves are the best answer and they can last a whole day, what brand/model would you recommend?

Toss some handwarmers into your gloves to get you through the next few days.  If that helps then consider heated gloves but I would suggest finding better non-heated gloves or just use handwarmers for the coldest of days and nothing on warmer days.

Jason4Too wrote:

Toss some handwarmers into your gloves to get you through the next few days.  If that helps then consider heated gloves but I would suggest finding better non-heated gloves or just use handwarmers for the coldest of days and nothing on warmer days.

I used to do that. Heated gloves are a game changer and I'll never go back to the chemical handwarmers.

Mark Straub wrote:

If heated gloves are the best answer and they can last a whole day, what brand/model would you recommend?

Hardly an exhaustive review. I purchased the Outdoor Research heated gloves based on on-line reviews and the price point. I've found they do indeed work all day on the medium setting, and far, far better than the chemical handwarmers. They also have excellent customer service. On the ones I bought the charger light display was acting really weird. They seemed to work* but the indicator lights were blinking like they shouldn't. OR sent me a new set of batteries and new charger without question.

*: even though the indicator lights are funky, the originals do indeed work, so I now have a spare pair of batteries and charger.

Jake Jones wrote:

The warmest gloves are the ones having the most fuzz or something like that.

fixed that for you

Wristbands can help 

It’s possible to overdo the layering and get your hands so warm that they sweat. It’s often an imperceptible amount when it happens, but that sweat will eventually sap your heat and cause your hands to numb out. Swapping out liners and/or cooling off before that happens can help.

Marc801 C wrote:

Hardly an exhaustive review. I purchased the Outdoor Research heated gloves based on on-line reviews and the price point. I've found they do indeed work all day on the medium setting, and far, far better than the chemical handwarmers. They also have excellent customer service. On the ones I bought the charger light display was acting really weird. They seemed to work* but the indicator lights were blinking like they shouldn't. OR sent me a new set of batteries and new charger without question.

*: even though the indicator lights are funky, the originals do indeed work, so I now have a spare pair of batteries and charger.

Did you get the Prevail or Sureshot gloves? I am worried about how fast they will wear if I am climbing and/or belaying in them. I tend to wear through about 1 pair of gloves worth of wear per season (spread across many pairs). Totally agree about the customer service though. Are you mostly following in these or leading too? How dextrous?

When I bought them there was only one model-about 5 years ago(?).

I bought them for skiing. I stopped ice climbing sometime around 1982. 

Has anybody else started using the Showa Temres 282-02 for skiing?

https://www.showagroup.com/us-en/shop/temres-282-02

Fixed fleece liner... I bought a pair in XL for regular use, and another XXL pair that I can wear an extra liner under.

I like that they come quite far up, well past the wrist. But they're kinda overkill for anything above ~15°F wind-chill.

The temres are great gloves, hyper waterproof and dexterous, but not super warm in the grand scheme of things. The insulated lining is very thin. I use them for California weather skiing. 

Got it ... would be interested to hear from anyone using these for ice. Or other recs for the warmest gloves people have used for leading. I'm a big fan of the Camp Gecko Ice Pro but once it's below 20 or so I have to be mindful to climb pretty relaxed or suffer the barfies.