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 smell itself isn’t the problem — it’s a sign that bacteria have been feeding on sweat and skin cells trapped in the glove lining. Bacteria need three things to multiply: warmth, moisture, and organic material. Remove any
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Quick answer: Most ski gloves don’t need a full wash nearly as often as people assume — a damp cloth handles surface dirt just fine. When a full wash is actually needed, lukewarm water and a technical wash (never regular
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Quick answer: The correct way to dry ski gloves is to separate the liner from the shell, open the cuff fully, and hang both pieces in a warm room with air circulating through the interior — never in direct contact
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Quick answer: A slipping glove is almost never one problem. It’s usually one of four — the palm surface has worn smooth, the material is wet or damp, a leather palm has stiffened from lost oils, or the glove is
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When a ski glove tears on the mountain, duct tape can be a reliable same-day fix for small to medium fabric tears, seam splits, and worn-through palm zones. Knowing how to repair ski gloves with duct tape correctly — specifically,
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Quick answer: Rubbing a plain candle over a ski glove does create a real, measurable water-repellent layer — paraffin is genuinely hydrophobic, so the effect isn’t imagined. But it only works well on solid leather or tightly woven synthetic shells,
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Quick answer: A ripped seam is one of the most fixable failures a ski glove can have, as long as you treat it as a structural repair rather than a quick patch-up job. The right approach comes down to which
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Quick answer: A torn glove isn’t automatically a dead glove — where the tear sits and what caused it tells you exactly what fix it needs. Clean punctures on the back of the hand hold up fine with a simple
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