Absolute Mitten

Well made and very warm! But may be a bit bulky especially if you want to ascend the peak or ice climbing. Great for warming up and you can put them onto your regular gloves which is a plus. Size vise I went one down: I usually wear M but these mitts in S fit my hands just nice. Definitely recommend if you need an ultimate freeze protection for your paws... or if you go to the outer space :)

Unable to feel ski poles when skinning. My hands stayed warm (2 stars) but not able to use poles with confidence or take skins on/off.

These mitts have yet to let me down, I have taken them out in 8F with windchill -25F with toasty warm hands. If you get cold hands easily or are serious about mountaineering these are the mitts to get!

To say this mitten is warm is understatement. To reiterate, if you get cold hands easy like myself, this will solve all those issues. At the expense of near complete dexterity loss, my hands felt like I was tanning on a beach chair at the top of a few of the Breckenridge cornices. Ski poles are very difficult to hold. Even a few instances where i forgot to put them back on when I began a run (laced around my wrist), fell and filled them with snow; they would quickly dry out and warm up my hands within 30 seconds of shaking them out. The lace system comfortably wraps around your wrist and does not drop too low. The fact that this piece also has a glove liner, makes it easier to dry out and clean. Also with this liner’s DWR coating and nose wipe, they would make a great spring skiing 3 finger glove! At a whopping small 424g, this behemoth of a hand sleeping bag weighs ~2x your cell phone. Since they are so large, they are indeed hard to pack with a full 20L backcountry bag. I was on the hunt for the warmest solution on the slopes with avoiding any tech or hand warmers. This is it.

I had a pair of these for 5-6 years. I loved them. I replaced them this year and the frayed and ripped immediately. They arent the gloves they used to be.

Last Monday, I went to a rare place in the mountains known for record breaking low temperatures in the U. S. called Peter Sinks, Utah, while it was -53 degrees Fahrenheit to test your Absolute Mitts. The mitts kept my hands warm just fine for the first 30 minutes. I then discovered that when my fingers got cold, all I had to do was curl all of my fingers and thumb up within each Mitt while still wearing the mitt and move them across each other. They then warmed up again! I did this for over an hour and could do it indefinitely. That is a fantastic mitt! Thank you!