I don't have good cold tolerance if not skiing

[foalstory]

ponies? not happening tomorrow :P although i WILL bundle up and get to the barn to find gloves to mail off as well as take photos of some of the ponies for xmas ornaments. yay, frozen fingers!

hi, I'd like a heated barn now, thanks!

*shivers*

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[grimma.livejournal.com]

Say, what kind of gloves do you use when it's very cold? Coz I have (rahter) warm, comfy wam, but too thick to let me ride properly.

Also, how on Earth can you heat a barn? Big spaces, no isolation...

[foalstory.livejournal.com]

talk to Beth/julnar, she has a heated barn that they ride in tshirts all winter! the northern/colder states often DO have heated barns -- you insulate them and spend a LOT on heating. even the arenas are heated!

any case, I've three different winter types of gloves, depending on how cold it is.

one pair are just fleece backed, so the back of the hands/fingers have a fleece liner, but the palm is the same grippy material.

the 2nd pair are fleece all around but with the grippy palm on top of it

the 3rd are these ULTRA nice leather glove (soft soft kidskin so you don't get too much bulk) that are lined with .. something. soft. WARM. but I could see the wear on those gloves after a month so I try to save them for the coldest days so i don't wear them out (at $50 a pair I want to make them last!) too fast.



my 1st two pairs are from Heritage, since they have the longer fingers that I need and come in sizes (6, 7, 7.5, 8, etc) rather than 'general' sizes like 'ladies', 'mens', etc. I'm an 8, which here is a large ladies or a small man's size, so the general gender sizing doesn't work for me :P

http://www.heritagegloves.com/

the premier and performance fleece gloves (last two on their products page) are the ones I have.

[celticravenwolf.livejournal.com]

http://www.heritagegloves.com/ExtremeWinter.html

Those are the gloves that I just bought, and I'm not even kidding, they're THE BEST gloves I've ever owned.

It's currently -29c with a wind chill dipping below -40 here. I was just out shoveling my walk in my regular winter gloves, but my fingers froze up before I finished the steps. I went back in, warmed up and put Tino's winter hunting mitts over top of my gloves. It was much warmer, but by the end of the less than 10 minutes it took me to do the sidewalk my fingers were numb.

After I'd warmed up I had to take the dog for a quick walk. I decided to put my Heritage gloves to the test and wore them out. My hands were practically sweating they were so warm! I walked the dog for 45 minutes and my hands felt as toasty as if I was in the house! Even the hand holding the leash wasn't the least bit cold. These things are so warm you can't even start wearing them until -15, because they're just too warm!

grimma, the other nice thing about them is that they're surprisingly thin. I've detested every other pair of winterized riding glove I've ever owned, but these ones are great.

So worth every penny.