Properly maintaining your winter equipment is the best way to ensure it lasts for years on the slopes. In our Care and Maintenance guides, we provide expert advice on how to wash, dry, and store your ski gear without damaging its waterproof coatings or insulation. Follow our mountain-tested tips to keep your equipment in peak condition season after season.
QUICK ANSWER: The same insulation performs differently at different temperatures, even brand new and completely dry. Colder air creates a steeper temperature gradient between your hand and the outside world, which pulls heat out faster regardless of how good the
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QUICK ANSWER: No — and treating a liner like a shell is the single most common mistake here. Liners are built to move moisture away from your skin, not block it. Coating one in wax or a waterproofing spray clogs
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QUICK ANSWER: Reproofing restores the DWR coating on the outer shell — it doesn’t fix a failed membrane, soaked insulation, or a torn seam. Clean the gloves first, apply a treatment matched to the shell material (spray-on DWR for synthetic,
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Quick answer: Leather ski gloves feel stiff out of the box because the tanning process leaves the fibers tight and un-flexed. The safe way to break them in is to wear them through normal use — cold, dry sessions first
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Quick answer: Most of the damage comes down to friction, not impact. Every time you grip a cold metal safety bar, the surface — rough, sometimes icy, occasionally chipped or bolted — grinds against your glove’s palm. It’s not dramatic
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Quick answer: It’s not the water itself causing the problem — it’s what water does to the glove’s surface texture. Dry palm material has a microscopic texture that creates friction. Once that surface gets wet, the texture flattens, fills, or
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Quick answer: Spray water on the palm and watch what happens for 20 seconds. If it beads and rolls off, the outer surface is doing its job. If it darkens and soaks in, the surface treatment has failed — regardless
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Quick answer: Heat is almost always the real cause — not the gloves being cheap or poorly made. Warm water, machine agitation, and dryer heat all pull glove fibers into a tighter, smaller shape than they started, and once that
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Quick answer: Glove discomfort almost always traces back to one of five causes: incorrect fit, seam placement, moisture buildup, an unfinished break-in period, or restricted circulation from tightness. Most skiers assume it’s just “cheap gloves” and replace them without ever
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Quick answer: Seams leak because every stitch that holds a glove together also punches a tiny hole through the waterproof layer, and that hole only stays sealed as long as the tape or sealant covering it holds up. The membrane
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