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I've learned to put on latex gloves under my fleece lined leather gloves (extreme cold I use the ski gloves, that are a little too fat for good dexterity, but certainly warm).  I've been known to ride my horse for 6-8 hours on a cold, windy, wet day with this and stay warm because your hands and gloves stay dry on the inside.  If you have to remove your gloves - like to go potty or ?? - you either leave the rubber gloves on  and do what needs doing, or if you take both sets of gloves off, turn the rubber gloves inside out (if your leather gloves are soaked and the outside of the rubber gloves is wet, dust with baby powder and remove them inside out) and you can put them back on under your gloves again and go on...might need more than 1 pr of outer gloves if it's really wet and cold and put on the dry ones if you have to take the others off.

 

I'm in TX, but riding for hours at a time in February can still get cold

Suzi.

----- Original Message -----

From: Rae Callaway

To: 'Barbara McCrary' ; 'larry Miller' ; 'ridecamp'

Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 6:21 PM

Subject: RE: [RC] cold - Gloves?

Ok, on this theme of cold, for those of you that live in the frozen North:  what kind of gloves to you use?  It?s in the low 30?s down here in SE Texas and I have some polar fleece, leather gloves and before I?m even half through feeding the horses, I can?t feel my fingers.  They get painfully cold.  I have to soak my hands in warm water for about 10 minutes when I come back in.

 

Rae

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