![]() ![]() Most of their insulated jackets aren't at all special and/or plagued by unnecessary application of heavy, unbreathable Goretex. Their climbing and ski boots are "meh." Packs - meh. But their gear is not overwhelmingly some panacea in terms of design. BD fits my hands really well for most gloves.Īrc'teryx doesn't universally have "such high quality standards." They have their Chinese factories in check and have good quality control, a good color swatch and an athletic cut that appeals to some (myself included for the latter). Down Mittens because they are just a totally acceptable example of the type with few downsides.Īlso so much of gloves is fit.Rush SV Gloves if you need something super premium and tanky because they are genuinely good and unique units, and the liner is removable so you can maintain them and keep them going for years properly.The two products I'd consider these days are: They have some good tech, but mostly aren't using it. acceptable I guess?Īnyways, my personal opinion is that Arc'teryx appears to be phoning in the glove line somewhat. The shells detach from the liners with my Beta AR gloves, as they do with the Rush SV gloves, and so I clean my fleece liners more often, and my shells less often, and it's. Gloves are tough to maintain, they are tough to wash, (gotta handwash or surface clean), tough to dry (can't drier them, they are leather), can't re-DWR the Gore outer (I guess you can blow dry them? sounds dumb), and waxing the leather feels weird because you inevitably slip up and hit the gore surface a little bit. You look after it, clean it, patch it, and it serves you for a long time. Not to mention part of owning really expensive outdoors kit is that it is maintainable. If you are aerobic, you often don't want waterproof gloves, or very thick gloves, because your hands get sweaty, and the leather hurts the Gore-Tex breathable surface area. Yet people buy an Arc'teryx glove expecting it to be super warm. Also gloves in general aren't that warm, if you're static then gloves stop working at around -15✬. Arc'teryx isn't using their advanced pattern on most of their gloves, instead using more traditional sub-par patterns and constructions. However, in other ways this design maybe isn't worthwhile. Other gloves like the Fission SV glove use the boring old box-tip design. ![]() Although this pattern is only on the Rush SV right now as far as I can tell. It also allows Arc'teryx to use a specific glove pattern which minimizes bulk at the fingertips, there are no fingertip seams. This holds up in practice, my Beta AR gloves (discontinued) are the most dexterous beefy insulated waterproof gloves I've ever used (I can tie my hiking boots wearing them). When your waterproof insulated glove only has three layers (Rush SV is leather + shell + fleece), you get a lot of dexterity. One of the things that hurts dexterity significantly in gloves is the friction between many layers of textile and insulation, causing bunching and binding as you try to articulate. Is doing it this way worthwhile? In some ways yes. Get the roll of 3L laminate from Gore, cut out the glove pieces, sew them together, and seam tape them. They are build almost identically to a Gore-Tex hard shell. Arc'teryx Gore-Tex gloves such as the Rush SV glove aren't built this way. Some gloves will put that membrane insert straight up against the outer textile, whereas other gloves will put it inside the insulation closer to the wearer's hand. You can get something similar for mitts (and footwear!).ĭifferent gloves are designed in different ways. Gore sells these, and most Gore-Tex gloves use them. A glove shape is stitched together out of a textile, then a membrane insert that looks something like this is attached to the inside of the glove. Most waterproof gloves, and Gore-Tex gloves specifically, are made with a membrane insert. Looking at waterproof gloves, since they are the most complex. That is to say waterproof gloves aren't usually good, people should wear way less glove than they commonly do, and gloves should be managed as layers too. I think gloves are misunderstood in general. I don't think they are terrible, the assortment contains good and bad. ![]()
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