Choosing Snowboarding Gloves
When you are snowboarding, one important piece of equipment is your gloves. Gloves serve many roles, from keeping your hands dry and warm to protecting your wrist. Gloves range in price from $20 to $150, depending on features and manufacturers. When snowboarding, and doing tight turns, your hands will often hit the snow, or you use the snow to balance. After a longer period of time your gloves will become worn, so it is important to spend that little bit extra to make sure that your gloves last longer than 1 season.
- Inner Liner: To insure your hands are kept warm.
- Goggles Cleaner: normally a piece of rubber that aids you in the cleaning of your goggles, like a wind shield wiper.
- Clips: often gloves will have clips on them, so that they can connect to your jacket, or that they can attach to eachother. The clips are nice to make sure you don't loose a glove half way down the slope.
- Guarantee : Good gloves should come with a warranty. Look for warranties for longer than 2 years.
Gloves with inbuilt wrist protectors
As gloves become more and more sophisticated, they are also making sure that they keep you safe. Gloves are now being produced with inbuilt wrist protectors, but may add $30 to the price of gloves. In the long run, the fact that you
Alternatives to snowboard gloves
You can use other types of gloves, like skiing gloves or any water proof gloves. But you will probably find that they are not as good as the real thing.