Customer reviews for Mountain Hardwear Men's Hydra EXT™ Glove
Mountain Hardwear Men's Hydra EXT™ Glove
Hydra EXT™ Glove
Overall rating:
(5 reviews) 5
Rating breakdown 5 reviews
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5 out of 5(100%)reviewers recommend this product.
Customer reviews for Men's Hydra EXT™ Glove
Review 1 for Men's Hydra EXT™ Glove
Overall Rating
great gloves
PostedMarch 5, 2013
southcreek
Location: Alaska
Experience: Core
Employee: No
Too Small
Too Large
Quality
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5
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5
Function
How well this item performed in its intended use, and beyond.
5
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5
These are my ski gloves that I use all winter in Alaska. My hands stay warm on the skin up in 0 degree windchill. I have also climbed many times and they work perfectly
I would recommend this product.
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Review 2 for Men's Hydra EXT™ Glove
Overall Rating
Warm and Dry
PostedFebruary 26, 2013
Susanne
Location: VA
Experience: Casual
Employee: No
Too Small
Too Large
Quality
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5
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5
Function
How well this item performed in its intended use, and beyond.
5
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5
Used this glove for a 5 degree day of ice-climbing in Hylite Canyon. Hands stayed warm and dry. Curved fingers made it easy to hold the ice tools all day. Excellent product.
I would recommend this product.
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Review 3 for Men's Hydra EXT™ Glove
Overall Rating
A glove that I can work in and stay warm
PostedJanuary 22, 2013
Thomasd
Location: Hagerstown, Maryland
Experience: Avid
Employee: No
Too Small
Too Large
Quality
How would you grade this itemʼs materials, construction and workmanship?
5
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5
Function
How well this item performed in its intended use, and beyond.
5
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5
As a patroller warmth and function are always a tradeoff until these gloves. Keeps me warm and dry up to about 17 degrees and that doesnt include the windchill. The glove is so well designed that I can pop in and out of them easily and draw them up tight one handed. Another win for the MH team.
I would recommend this product.
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Review 4 for Men's Hydra EXT™ Glove
Overall Rating
Hydra EXT
PostedJanuary 3, 2013
Lollipop
Location: Norway
Experience: Avid
Employee: No
Too Small
Too Large
Quality
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3
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5
Function
How well this item performed in its intended use, and beyond.
3
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5
Nice gloves for alpine climbing. Maybe my favourite.
The stitching around the thumbs is my only concern. My gloves look perfetcly new, except the stitching. They perform exelently for alpine climbing, where you don`t have to place ice screws.
The stitching around the thumbs is my only concern. My gloves look perfetcly new, except the stitching. They perform exelently for alpine climbing, where you don`t have to place ice screws.
They`re therefor a bit expensive for what you get.
I would recommend this product.
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Review 5 for Men's Hydra EXT™ Glove
Overall Rating
Best alpine glove, one improvement
PostedDecember 25, 2012
highcamp
Location: Boulder, CO
Experience: Core
Employee: No
Too Small
Too Large
Quality
How would you grade this itemʼs materials, construction and workmanship?
4
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5
Best alpine glove I've ever used (and I've gone through a LOT). 3 things make a quality alpine glove - dexterity, breathability/waterproofness, warmth. On dexterity, the Hydra is far beyond the competition. I don't know if it's solely the OutDry technology, but you definitely don't feel like you're climbing with a layered goretex membrane glove. Great for climbing with your hands, messing with pro, v-threads, you name it.
The breathability and waterproofness is also unrivaled. Under high output, I never felt like things were getting swampy in the glove. Even when spindrift got it (when I had them off) and my hand warmed it all up, the humidity just passed through.
Lastly, I think the warmth truly comes from the above two combined. Sure it has insulation as well, but by having truly dry hands that you don't have to overgrip with because you have accurate feel with, it makes for warm hands all around. Better than thicker gloves from the competition.
One improvement: the soft leather palm loves to soak up water. None of it gets to your hand, but the soaked leather freezes in really cold temps, which is not great. I think MH needs to work on their treatment of their palm leather, but until then use sno-seal and you're good to go. You'll have to reapply over the course of the season, and I don't know if it's the best for the outdry membrane, but this is definitely needed to keep that leather from getting water-saturated. Haven't tried baking the sno-seal in, might try that this year on my older hydras.
Highly recommend this glove. Just get it and stop searching. It's that good.
I would recommend this product.
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