17 December 2014

OR presents amazing battery heated gloves and mitts

Outdoor Research, an innovative focused major player in the outdoor market, has introduced a unique heated glove perfect for the climbers fighting winter conditions. The rechargeable battery last between two hours to eight hours depending on how warm hands you want. We have just tested the Stormtracker gloves and they work good but they also have Lucent mitts, see the picture. In practice you will probably have many more rock climbing days during the winter using the mitts. This is a must have for all hard core guys pushing the grades also in freezing conditions. At the same time, the battery heated gloves goes for Euro 230 and the mitts for to Euro 340, so you have to dig deep. 8a has already asked for further innovations with a heated smaller glove with open fingers and also for a heated chalk bag that you could use fighting high up towards the anchor with ice cold finger tips. The impact of this amazing innovation can in a few years mean that it will be quite normal to climb outdoors year around and what if OR could also innovate refrigerated gloves for summer conditions :)
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