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Remember, if you don't keep your arms and legs warm, you can't expect to keep your hands and feet warm. Make sure you are wearing plenty of warm clothes on your arms, and a pair of thick ragwool gloves with thinsilate liners works wonders. Like Libby said, wool stays warm, wet or dry.

 

Lori B.

 

Libby & Quentin Llop DVM <qhll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fishermen's "wet" mittens. Knit an oversize wool mitten and shrink the
> daylights out of it. I don't deliberately wet mine, but hear tell that
> Maine Lobstermen soak theirs in the bilge water before they put them on.
> They are warm dry or wet. When it's that cold fingers need company. I can do
> most chores and ride with the mittens on, but can also whip one off and get
> it back on before my fingers freeze, if I need to.
>  Libby
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> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lif Strand
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 9:50 AM
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> Subject: [RC] Painful, cold fingers
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> It was 7 below zero this morning, and by the time I was done feeding,
> the ends of my fingers were in awful pain. I am wearing those glove
> liners with the mylar threads running through them, and rubber gloves
> to keep my hands dry (leather gloves get wet fast and are
> useless). Believe it or not, down to well below freezing this combo
> works fine. However, below zero, the combination isn't so fine at
> all. I'd like to know if anyone's got the perfect solution for cold
> hands that still allows a person to work with the hands.
>
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