Originally Posted By phat

In heavier terrain and cooler weather, I often hike in a pair of fancy mechanics gloves, they are leather with sythetic backing, tough enough to protect hands and be warm, but generally dexterous enough to be useful still - I like them because I can put hands down on rocks and pick up hot things and yet the leather provides some warmth, and yet they are more dexterous than my wool gloves.


Forgot to mention that. For search and rescue I am required to have work gloves. The leather palm/synthetic backed gloves I picked up at the hardware store actually do a great job at keeping my hands warm - we were out in cold ongoing rain over the weekend and though the backs of the gloves were soaked, my hands were pretty darn warm.
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