I’m intending to buy some gloves to use for commuting on cold days. I’m looking for something wind-proof, fairly light, and hopefully a bit water resistant.
Here are three sets of gloves that I’ve been looking at:
- Outdoor Research, commuter windstopper gloves
- Arc’teryx, Venta gloves
- Rab, Vapour-Rise gloves
I don’t really know if any of those are good options. But they seem roughly what I’m looking for.
I’m wondering what gloves other people wear, and if you have any recommendations.
[edit] Although the primary purpose of the gloves is for commuting; I’d also like them to be my general “go to” gloves for whenever they are needed when visiting cold places.
What kind of weather are you expecting to deal with? Temperature-wise is generally most important to know to give advice.
I personally bought a pair of fairly thick gloves from AliExpress most recently, and they serve me well in temperatures as cold as -10 C.
Right.
It rarely gets below 0°C where I live, and mostly I’m not going to be wearing gloves at all. But when I do wear them, I guess it will be somewhere around -2 to 6 °C. I don’t think I need gloves that are very warm. It’s mostly have wind-chill and a bit of warmth for general use.
(Currently I’m away from home, in a place where it is regularly -5 to -10 °C; so I’m thinking it might be good to have a not-too-warm set of gloves but with enough space for a woolen liner or something.)
In that context, look for insulated work gloves that are rubber coated on the outside.
I had to run errands in the pouring rain recently, and those performed really well!