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Well it's February the 3rd and the ground has been dry for over a month. Probably like six weeks and if you like. Outdoor activities like cell billing and. Stuff like that it really sucks it's. Been a pretty horrible winter for southern Ontario but i always like to look on the bright side of things and the one good thing about it is that there's been a lot of good sales on their clothing in toronto recently so i. Decided to pick up a couple pair of. Gloves that I've had my eye on the last couple years but i haven't been able to decide which one to choose well since. They both came on sale i thought why not get both and run a little comparison. Video so this is going to be my initial. Impressions or first impressions of the marmot ultimate ski glove versus the. Black diamond guide glove and maybe in a. Couple years after i use them for a while i have an update video to see which one actually works better maybe I'll even try wearing one on one hand and one on the other at the same time to. See which i like better but yeah so this. Is gonna be a initial comparison video just to kind of give you guys an idea so. In terms of what comes with the gloves they basically come with the same thing except the black diamond guide gloves. Come with nick wax weatherproofing for. Leather so that's a little bit of an bonus you know it's definitely important to add this nick's nick wax. Leather weather proofing just to make your leather that much extra waterproof. Now if it doesn't come with it like these marmot gloves did not you can of course buy it separately this was ten. Bucks from mountain equipment co-op or your local outdoor store otherwise these. Gloves are pretty identical as you can. See one big difference that you can see. Right off the bat is that the marmot. Gloves come with what's called gore-tex. Active and the black diamond guy gloves. Come with gore-tex warm. Just a quick google search these two. Types of technology are very similar but. It's quite apparent that the warm. Technology is just like the name implies you know better for very warm conditions. The gore-tex active is also good for. Cold weather conditions but again the. Warm designation implies and shows that. It's ideal for very cool temperatures. Let's check out how the gloves compare against each other in terms of weeks so. For the marmot ultimate ski glove both extra-large gloves are coming in at it. 257 grams that's pretty close if not. Exactly what their claimed weight is claims weight of 8.8 ounces 258 grams. Equals 9.1 ounces so that's pretty much. Spot-on again to account for the. Extra-large size compared to the large. Size that they have on the website so let's see what the black diamonds weigh now black diamonds are quite a bit more they weigh in at 365 grams so over 100. Grams more and for those who want to see. It an imperial. Twelve point eight ounces so if weight. Is a huge concern the black diamond. Patrol gloves are sorry the black diamond guide gloves are significantly heavier perhaps the biggest difference. And one that might not be obvious at. First glance is that the black diamond gloves come with a removable insert so. This insert here is removable whereas. The marmot you cannot remove that insert. So I'm not really sure how that's going. To affect things over time it might be nice to be able to remove the insert to wash it i guess but yeah that is the one. Major difference in terms of sizing. You're supposed to measure your hand. Like such here my hand size is 9 inches. So i ordered an extra large based on. That measurements for from both manufacturers and it's clear that the. Black diamond glove does fit tighter than the marmot so the extra large black. Diamond is nice and snug on me i. Wouldn't want it much snugger than that. So the extra large is pretty much the. Perfect size whereas the marmot the. Extra large gives me a bit more room. Inside the glove i could probably squeeze in a riding glove or another. Shell of a glove inside for very cold. Conditions. Now the marmot gloves have these ripples. In the knuckles that is supposed to add a little bit of dexterity you can as well. See that a few other small differences the black diamond guide glove has. Leather surrounding the entire thumb whereas the back of the thumb on the marmot glove is cloth. Similarly, in between the fingers and the. Black diamond glove is nylon cloth whereas on the marmot it's leather so. It'll be interesting to see which wears out first based on the type of. Conditions i use these gloves for i quite often find myself yanking on. Things pulling on rope helping people. Get out of stuck situations on their. Snow belt pulling on winch cable so you. No I've often seen my snow moves tear. Around the palms and in the finger between the fingers where i could grab onto things, so we'll see which one stand. The test of time both gloves have adjustable draw cord cuffs that are both. Easy to use with your gloved hand it's. Just a matter of pulling the one chord. To cinch them up and I'm pulling the. Other end of the cord to loosen them back up again same with the marmots. Slightly different style but just as. Good one cord cinch this them up the red. Cord releases it so my only hope now is. To actually get enough snow to put these gloves to use I'm not holding my breath. That's for sure and doesn't look like jasper's either but i guess as soon as. The snow goes away at least we know atving in dirt biking again and for those cold early spring rides your atv. In the dirt biking i expect these gloves will work well for that as well I'll keep you posted an update video will follow in a couple years.

Merging a work-oriented glove with a ski. Specific glove marmot has created the. Basic ski glove with a durable. Construction and premium materials this. Is a great glove to take you right from chopping wood to the slopes let's take a. Look at its features these gloves are. Constructed with fully leather materials. On the exterior so from the palm all the. Way until the back of the hand you've got just consistent leather so there's. No synthetic materials that are gonna break down it's just a nice durable and. Comfortable leather material it is water-resistant but it is not fully waterproof so keep that in mind when picking up these gloves we do also have. A glove clip on the exterior which is. Going to allow you to clip the gloves together so you can make sure that you hang onto both of them at all times you've also got a nice cinched cuff. There that's gonna keep the fit nice on the bottom of the gloves there's no velcro attachment or any you know adjustment like that but there is. That nice cinch around the cuff for comfort on the inside we do have a. Thermal or insulation so that will help keep your hands warm it is a synthetic insulation so even if it does get a little wet it'll still maintain its thermal properties, and we do have a 3d. Dry clime wicking liner so that liner. Kind of lines the inside of the gloves and provides really good wicking power if your hands get a little warm or a little sweaty you're working up somebody heat so nice materials inside the. Glove as well as that durable leather on the outside they've also got out finished seams so you get a really comfortable fit there's no weird. Abrasions from the seams on the inside all the seams are finished on the outside so really unparalleled comfort. On the inside of the glove so there you. Have it highly water-resistant but not fully waterproof the marmot basic ski. Glove is an excellent glove to go from work to play.

Hi this is brown of pro-leg gear and. Today we are we talking about the mountain equipment rondon a glove this is a new one from mountain equipment beautiful design on these as well now there's a shoulder dry skin extreme on the back of. The hand on the palm this is petard. Armor tan leather they make several. Different grades of the petard it's still goat skin still very soft very supple yet very durable and water-resistant by grain of the leather this is just a little bit tougher and stronger than there aren't than their oil tack whether they use on the really grippy climbing gloves it shares the. Three part thumb with the super alpine. Glove it's got the snot wipe on the. Bottom of the thumb so you can kind of you know suck back some snot when you're on the lift or when you're touring somewhere sure low dry skin extreme there and then the leather going across the front of the thumb so it's still very dexterous on the inside of the glove there's this wonderful pile lining it's almost like sticking your hand in a rabbit glove like rabbit lion glove it's just a super soft feeling teflon. Reinforced new-school hook and loop velcro cuff incredibly warm incredibly. Comfortable these would be for me good. Down to zero degrees touring as long as I'm moving quickly my hands will stay incredibly warm in these rolled fingers throughout for added dexterity because they are a little bit thicker of a glove wonderful design by mountain equipment. If you have any questions please feel free to give us a call at four zero six five eight two zero five zero eight or. Send us an email at info at pro lake gear comm and if you don't like the video please feel free to write your complaints on the back of a new $20 bill. And send it to pro light gear at 421 a. West griffin drive thanks for watching.

Hi this is brad with proline gear and. Today we're gonna be talking about the guide glove for mountain equipment this is a very nicely designed glove and at 50 dollars you really can't beat this glove it is. Completely waterproof using mountain. Equipment dry light membrane it's highly waterproof highly breathable with. A micro pile lining insert kind of that kind of rabbit kind of rabbit fur style. Feeling on the inside very warm, and they bond it inside there so when you pull your hand out the lining doesn't move around your hands so when other gloves are a soggy mess and are difficult to get off these will slide on and off with ease many times the grey portion here is a nice nylon material and the back is a stretch panel so the glove will move and articulate very nicely this is a cowhide. Leather palm not the tarts this is gonna be very durable for the guy so I'm doing a lot of belays just a very tough leather glove rolled fingers for added dexterity and then give you a little extra leather on the tips of the fingers which decrease dexterity a little bit but increased durability if you're having to grab rocks or anything like that while you're climbing or using ski poles snot wipe on the bottom of the. Glove nylon on the top part of the thumb and three-part thumb that shares design. With all their other gloves fantastically well-designed well-thought-out pre articulated fingers for. Belay so you can hold on a little bit better or hold on to rock or your tools they fit true to size I'm a xl and. These xl fit my hand perfectly if you. Have any questions about mountain equipments hand wear or any other questions at all please feel free to call us at 4:06 five eight two zero five. Zero eight or send us an email at info at pro loggers calm and if you have any. Complaints about these videos please feel free to write them on the. Back of a brand-new pair of ena fit manís lou skis preferably a 178 thanks. For watching.

Hi this is brad with proline gear and. Today we'll be talking about the mountain equipment super alpine club this is a beautifully designed glove from our friends across the pond it is made from gore-tex windstopper petard oil tag leather palm with a little bit. Of neoprene just to add a little bit of comfort in the cuff and I'm gonna pull these out here to show you how they fit. The gloves fit absolutely wonderfully. Right here looking at these petard soiltac palm there's a little bit of texture to it as well as just the adjust. The goatskin there it's incredibly dexterous due to the three part thumb. Design right here so kind of it's a they called snap wipe right here as well. A little bit softer and the thumb is built in three places so it has this roll tip finger so when you go to grab a carabiner you can actually feel the nose. Feel the gate feel the screw part in your fingers incredibly dexterous a little bit of durability here in case the rope goes over your hand just for long repels blaze things like that mountain equipment does something that I've never seen another company do they take a lot of time and attention building their stuff instead of having a tie safe mountain equipment in one piece. They actually a separate mountain and equipment on the left and right gloves i just thought that was kind of interesting wind stopper across the back. And the apri there with a really nice new-school hook and loop velcro cuff. They're incredibly tight-fitting they'll be dexterous these would be great for ice climbing anything alpine use maybe even cold touring days if you have any questions please feel free to call. Us at 4:06 five eight two zero five zero. Eight or send us an e-mail at pro lecture comm thanks for watching.

Hi guys so when you think of buying a. Winter be when you're wondering which one to get now the reason why I'm gonna use this as. My primary booth for ice and mix. Climbing this winter is because it's got. An external gator which is going to keep your feet really dry and also really. Warm too and also there's no lace there's no like metal laces on the front of here so when. I'm climbing i you know it's completely. Sealed if i put my foot in a crack or. Something like that this is some all one unit which is it's really gonna help out. Actually it's better to not have laces or a lace hook should i say on the front of the toe if you're really thinking about going climbing the other thing with these is because they're made out dry yeah out dry membrane they don't. Absorb any water at all so if you're. Using them for multiple days they don't. Get wet you know you like you can dry them off really fast whereas like a more traditional door membrane it's gonna take longer to dry them off if they do get saturated because there's like a space in between the membrane and. The actual outer bit so if you want one boot that does. Everything this is a really good option you can use it down to like — 15. — 20 degrees centigrade so if you're going to canada it's gonna be that or you can take to the out and take the Scotland you can have really warm feet and it's its state the art 2016. Technology like these boots were designed with ely stack, and they're just absolutely amazing.

So we've got a whole new fit system here. At the north face called five dimensional fit, and we've borrowed what we've learned from footwear which is you've got to measure the interior volume of the glove and go outward from there when you're adjusting for size, but we've got a whole new system for grading. Size on gloves it's called five dimensional fits and it ensures that if. You're a large in a technical mountaineering glove like this you'll be a large in a stretchy fleece glove for. An entirely different end use, so we've also employed some pretty sophisticated new construction solutions one of them. Which is called radiometric articulation. Basically that mouthful means that we've. Cut the glove in such a way that you end. Up with that a nice natural curve built. Into the glove so that your hand isn't fighting a flat glove to relax we've. Built our gloves with a warm warmer the warmest sensibility and you'll see actually on the hang tags at retail. You'll see snowflakes and now one snowflake is warm two snowflakes is warmer and three snowflakes is warmest as it needs to convey the message that out you know in the case of the kelvin here we've built it to be the warmest possible globe that we can build with 8 ounces of frame loft on the back of hand. And 4 ounces of primo loft on the front of hand this is as warm as we can build a mountaineering glove and still maintain the kind of dexterity that this users gonna need.

So we've got a whole new fit system here. At the north face called five dimensional fit, and we've borrowed what we've learned from footwear which is you've got to measure the interior volume of the glove and go outward from there when you're adjusting for size, but we've got a whole new system for grading. Size on gloves it's called five dimensional fits and it ensures that if. You're a large in a technical mountaineering glove like this you'll be a large in a stretchy fleece glove for. An entirely different end use, so we've also employed some pretty sophisticated new construction solutions one of them. Which is called radiometric articulation. Basically that mouthful means that we've. Cut the glove in such a way that you end. Up with that a nice natural curve built. Into the glove so that your hand isn't fighting a flat glove to relax we've. Built our gloves with a warm warmer the warmest sensibility and you'll see actually on the hang tags at retail. You'll see snowflakes and now one snowflake is warm two snowflakes is warmer and three snowflakes is warmest as it needs to convey the message that out you know in the case of the kelvin here we've built it to be the warmest possible globe that we can build with 8 ounces of frame loft on the back of hand. And 4 ounces of primo loft on the front of hand this is as warm as we can build a mountaineering glove and still maintain the kind of dexterity that this users gonna need.