Men's Hydra EXT™ Glove 4.6 5 5 5
great gloves 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 March 5, 2013
Warm and Dry 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. February 26, 2013
A glove that I can work in and stay warm 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. January 22, 2013
Hydra EXT 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.They`re therefor a bit expensive for what you get. January 3, 2013
Best alpine glove, one improvement 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. December 25, 2012