SkiTech review: North Face Vortex II and North Face S.T.H. Gloves
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Keeping Warm with The North Face
(Credit: Matt Asay)
I’ve noted before that when it comes to my hands, I’m a wuss. Last year I found the first pair of gloves that actually kept my hands warm: The North Face Patrol glove.
While I still think about that glove the gold standard (among Mountain Hardwear and other brands I’ve evaluated), I really liked the North Face Vortex II and North Face S.T.H. gloves that I evaluated this year, as well, though for entirely different reasons.
Skiing last month in Las Lenas, Argentina, the weather was perfectly suited to The North Face S.T.H. glove for the first day: relatively warm, spring-skiing conditions. The North Face S.T.H. glove is the glove you’ll want to have when shoveling snow, but also the one for spring skiing or simply when loading up the automobile at the end of the day.
North Face Vortex II Glove
The North Face S.T.H. glove is water-resistant with a highly breathable Apex ClimateBlock stretch shell. This means it will keep you warm and dry in milder conditions, but not for much of the rest of the season.
The S.T.H. is also a super-supple, contoured glove, which means you can actually do things like dial a number on your mobile while wearing it.
The North Face Vortex II glove, on the other hand, will keep you warm on much harsher conditions, like my second day at Las Lenas where the resort received roughly nine feet of new powder (plus a fair amount of wind to keep things cool). I found that the HyVent two-layer shell kept my hands dry despite swimming through a heck of a lot of powder, and I never felt cold.
Given how wimpy my hands are in the cold, this states a lot.
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