Climbing rope diameter and tennis elbow

[Dan Maynard]

2 hours ago, Rich Rule said:

But the cold is pretty dry here, if that makes sense:  2 degrees and rain is much worse to work in than -10 and dry IME.

Actually that does remind me of conifer topping in 2C rain.

 

Started the Landrover engine at lunchtime to warm us up. Fat lot of use, takes about 25 minutes for anything at all to come through , time to go back out again.

[Mike Hill]

I wear latex gloves under my regular work gloves in the wet and cold. Swapping my wet gloves for dry ones throughout the day.

[Mark Bolam]

That’s an image I don’t need Mike, I’ve just got in from church.

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

2 hours ago, kram said:

Yes the scale is something like that. Thin gloves that are suitable to climb in will never score highly.

https://www.sam-turner.co.uk/products/pfanner-stretchflex-ice-grip-gloves

I used to commute everywhere by motor bike, cbr600. 25 miles in icy -12c at 120mph. Quite cold! Without the right gloves, my hands would be completely numb, and that happened more than once.

 

The solution was a pair of Spada Enforcers, which are a very warm winter bike glove, with a pair of chinese heated liners. A bit of a pain to get the liners in but they generally stay in place. This sort of thing

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bagima-Electric-Heating-Adjuatable-Cycling/dp/B0C6TMMQB1/

 

Not going to fit in climbing gloves. If they get wet, you will get tingly, burning shocks on your hand. However if its just to warm up in a big pair of dry gloves it'll work.

 

If I could get bike up the hills to the main gritted road, it was generally safe enough. I did over 100k miles on that bike.

 

There were a few expensive brands selling proper heated gloves. I bought them all, wanted them to work, sadly all rubbish with low heat output, tried and returned them, the heat was nkt enough a d gloves worse than the Spada's. May have improved by now.. that was years ago. The chinese inserts were hot, they could burn you if on full power for any length of time. On low power they were pleasant.

 

Thanks Kram, I’ll check them out.

Maybe just chuck them in a chunky sized set of mitts.