Re: ski gloves

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Posted by calamity (Guest) on December 12, 2007 at 7:52:25 pm EST
In reply to ski gloves posted by amkaos on December 12, 2007 at 2:18:39 pm EST

There is something weird and counter-intuitive about gloves, having to do with exterior area and physics. It's related to why lemmings are fat and round.

When the area rises to a certain amount, the efficiency of glove starts to decline relative to protection against extreme cold, and as I understand it, the larger area becomes a liability, and at this point, you are best off with mittens, due to smaller exterior square acreage.

Gloves are nice and mittens are less nice, but certainly the larger goal is avoiding frostbite.

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