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.
If your ski gloves start smelling after just a few days, you’re not alone. The smell isn’t actually the problem — it’s a sign of bacteria building up inside the glove lining after use. This happens when sweat, heat, and […]
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There is a specific, cringeworthy moment every skier knows: you pull your gloves out of your gear bag on a cold January morning, slide your hands inside, and a smell hits you like a middle-school locker room. It’s a mix
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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. This takes six to eight hours in
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There is a specific moment on the mountain when you realize your gloves have lost their grip. Your pole plants feel uncertain. You tighten your fist harder to compensate. By noon your forearm aches even though you haven’t skied anything
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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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Yes — rubbing a plain wax candle onto the outer shell of your ski gloves and melting it in with a hair dryer creates a practical water-repellent barrier that performs similarly to a basic DWR coating. It works on the
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There is a distinct, sinking feeling every skier knows. You are on the chairlift, the wind is howling at 20 mph, and you feel a sharp jet of freezing air hitting your thumb. You look down and see it: the
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A torn ski glove is a specific kind of frustrating. It happens at the worst moment — mid-trip, usually on a wet day — and your options are either pay resort-shop prices for a replacement or find a way to
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