Men's Guide Glove

Use case for these gloves has been backcountry snowboarding in deep powder, and a mountaineering course I took on Denali. As others have stated, the liners on these gloves are incredibly easy to turn inside out. ANY amount of moisture on your hands creates just enough grip for the liners to pull themselves out of the glove and turn inside out. Once that happens, they become hopelessly tangled in such a way that you must stop what you are doing for at least 20 minutes and fight with every ounce of concentration you’ve got, to get your hand and liner back inside the glove properly. In more dynamic situations, it is simply not possible to fix right then and there. I got into a situation during my Denali course where I got the liner partially inside out while traveling across a crevasse field in a roped group. We were in low-vis blizzard conditions in glaciated terrain with a very high risk of somebody going crevasse diving, and I am splitting my attention between belaying my teammates across this crevasse field, and futzing around with the one piece of kit that should demand ZERO brainpower to operate. It is difficult enough to reset these gloves in a warm living room with zero wind or moisture, but in a real-world backcountry situation, it becomes nearly impossible. Try explaining to your family that you’ve lost half the fingers on your hand to frostbite because your glove liners got tangled inside out and you couldn’t figure out how to fix it in time. It's an easy scenario to imagine with gloves like these. When these gloves are functioning correctly, they are warm, they integrate nicely with my shell to keep snow out, and they are waterproof once treated with Nikwax. But what good does that do you when these gloves are just waiting to fail on you when you might need them most?