$8 Ski Gloves

Posted by on Mar 3, 2011 in Ski | 4 Comments

Looking for a decent hiking glove for your ski tours but don’t want to spend $100?

Go to Wal-Mart. Or Target. Or Cal-Ranch.

For $8 you can find a good pair of leather winter work gloves. Put a little water resistant treatment on them and voila!

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They will probably wear out after a season or two. Maybe faster. But what do you expect from gloves that cost $8?

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Other gloves look better. Probably perform better. But they also cost a lot more. Nevertheless, after 4 days of hiking in the Pioneer Mountains with my supermarket gloves, I can’t really see a reason to spend a lot of money on an uphill (and warmer weather downhill) glove. At $8 they are almost disposable. Almost. After all, part of being a AAA dirtbag is making sure that gear—cheap or not—lasts a long time. But if these do happen to last about as long as their price implies, I can always pick up a replacement pair the next time I need to get milk or diapers.

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4 Comments

  1. mark
    March 3, 2011

    Is “viola” Italian for “voila”?

    • Grizzly Adam
      March 3, 2011

      Since corrected. We regret the error.

      • Grizzly Adam
        March 3, 2011

        What’s the definiton of “perfect pitch?”
        Throwing a viola into a dumpster without hitting the rim.

  2. Daren
    March 3, 2011

    Just wait unitl you’re old like me and poor circulation require expensive expedition mittens to avoid frost bite. Kind of sucks, $8 is better.

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