Review on 🧤 Columbia Fleece Glove with Compass, Size X-Large by Victor Houser

Let me start by saying that I'm a huge fan of Columbia Sportswear - I've only worn their stuff in Baltimore in the winter for about twenty years. currently. I still own and wear some of the jackets and parkas I bought when I was in high school and am now just a few months away from turning 36. After skipping three grades in elementary school, I was 14-15 years old when my parents bought these coats. I believe this is a great credit to Columbia's materials and build quality. These gloves are part of Columbia's new line of reflective body heat with a silver lining. They are very thin, when I opened the package and held them in my hands I honestly thought I would send them back. A few friends have told me that the range of reflective gloves is *very small* and should be ordered one size larger than I normally wear. All my other Columbia gloves are either S/M or Medium as my hands are quite small. I ordered them large and they are quite snug - not too uncomfortable, the range of motion for my hands when wearing them is fantastic, even better than the fleece lining of my Bugaboo convertible and my old backup pair of wood rib fleece with suede. palms and fingertips. The tight landing seems to be working - a few days ago it was 28 degrees here with a windy/"felt" temperature of 19 degrees. I figured this would be a good test of my new gloves, so I slipped them on, hooked my Mountain Ridge parka's Velcro straps to the wrists of my gloves, and headed out the door. I actually used my gloved hands to remove some of the snow from my machine that would have soaked through a regular fleece glove and left them completely dry and more importantly, my hands were warm. I have found them very easy to drive while my car is warming up. I was able to control my sat nav remote with my Pioneer Elite head unit which has tiny buttons and I found I had exceptional grip on the steering wheel and shifter. .I have only one caveat about these gloves - if you put them on with warm hands, they immediately become exceptionally warm. If your hands are cold and you put them on, it will take a few minutes for your hands to warm up enough for body heat reflection to provide the same level of warmth. I have a bad case of osteoarthritis in my hands so I really need to keep them warm. I found that storing the gloves in the parka's inner chest pocket when I wasn't wearing them actually "charged" the reflective thermal lining a bit, and they were much warmer than just sitting in them or putting them back in place and place . her in my pocket. They're also a great replacement for the smooth fleece liner on various "interchangeable" glove models - the Bugaboo and Spindrift are two of the current models and I've tried them with both. I've found that if I don Fast Trek gloves and buckle the jacket cuffs over them, then don the nylon exterior of the Interchange gloves and tighten the shockcord over the jacket cuffs, the combination is incredibly warm and completely windproof - if I don't gloves off. I haven't had any arthritis pain in my palms from the cold on a 15 degree day and 45 mph winds which is amazing to me - with regular fleece liners my hands were always stiff even when under cuffs and Cuffs locked, mittens were closed around my handcuffs. Definitely five stars for light weight, freedom of movement, warmth and versatility.