Looking for winter riding gloves that are warm, but flexible enough to ride in. It’s in the single digits here- suggestions, please!
Hot Hands or similar hand warmer in comfortable glove is THE answer. I’ve never found gloves that help without “chemical” intervention. I use them in my boots too, and my temperament is improved substantially.
For really cold days I like the SSG riding mittens (leather, with warm lining) but my hands don’t tend to get very cold. Down to around 0F in the indoor, I’m fine with thin fleece gloves. I have the RSL ones that are supposed to be good for spring and fall but I wear them all winter.
thin fleece gloves http://www.equestriancollections.com/product.asp?groupcode=ER90298
riding mittens http://www.ssgridinggloves.com/style-4700-winter-riding-mittens
What I don’t like are the SSG winter training gloves. For some reason, they make my hands really cold. I think I like the thinner and looser gloves that allow the heat generated to spread.
https://www.smartpakequine.com/roeckl-winter-chester-glove-5988p
These are pretty expensive but that because they are made of magic. Very much worth the money!
BoB and Tack of the Day are having sales on Back on Track products. There are gloves available, both inside and riding/outside.
Has anyone here got them, and do they work? I’m very, very tempted, but don’t want to waste the money (riding gloves at almost $60) if they aren’t warmer than other winter gloves.
I guess you are getting our winter! Here in the mountains in WA we have been having April temperatures and losing our snow at the rate of about 1 1/2 inches a day.
I’m up in Northern Ontario and I like Mountain Horse riding mittens. Sorry can’t seem to find a link to them. No gloves are warm enough. They’re good to about -10 Celsius and -20 if you wear silk gloves underneath.
Me = terrible circulation & freezing cold hands/fingers. Anything Thinsulate is awesome, but my saving grace, which I worship, was finding these (my hands started sweating in 20 seconds when I tried them on in the tack store, so I knew it would be good). And they are still alive after 3 yrs, unlike…any other gloves I have ever owned (other SSGs, Heritage, - those had a hole in two weeks). Great flex & grip for riding, love. Although mine have some sort of nylon/microfibre outer, not the synthetic leather, but they are the 10 Belows:
I have an older pair of the SSG 10 Below and they are very nice. But, at single digits and lower, I have to add hand warmers to any of my gloves.
The SSG 10 Below gloves work well for me. I’ll be able to test the single digit factor tonight and in the morning. This morning, after an hour-and-a-half in wind chills of -7, my hands were sweating.
The not synthetic leather SSG 10 Belows are cheaper everywhere. They are $29.59 at State Line Tack plus there is a 20% discount today. SmartPak is much more expensive. Schneider’s had leather gloves with rabbit fur linings recently for $18.
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Never tried the liners. I picked the riding gloves up on sale somewhere and love 'em. My hands really feel the cold and these are definitely warmer than any other riding glove I’ve ever tried. They make even the walking warm-up – which I’d previously spent with one hand on the reins and the other in a pocket, alternating – bearable.
For hacking through the frozen wasteland (and walking the dog through the frozen wasteland, and snowshoeing through the frozen wasteland, and…) I use the Mountain Horse Tridurance mitten-gloves.
I love my SSG below 10. They are thick like ski gloves, but grippy and worth it for the warmth. I’ve ridden with a double bridle in them just fine (and I normally hate bulk and don’t even wear gloves in the summer).
I find that the polar tea gloves from SSG and from Roekl are great. Incredibly comfortable, grippy, warm and thin enough to use as a liner in ultra old weather
I have the SSG Ceramic Liners under SSG Work N Horse gloves and am good in single digits. I have the most trouble tacking up. My fingers get cold. But once I’m mounted and working, just the SSG Work N Horse gloves alone do fine.
Back on track riding gloves are the only gloves I’ve ever ridden in where my fingertips don’t go numb. Previously I used much thicker SSG winter gloves but my fingertips still went numb & they were bulky. In milder cold weather I like the Roeckl winter Chester gloves that someone mentioned above, but not for the sort of winter we’ve had in New England this year. I’ve ridden & done barn chores with the BOT gloves in single digit weather with below zero windchill & my fingers were fine.
