Keep
your hands and feet warm
This
is not necessarily as easy as it sounds. Firstly, when it comes
to keeping our feet warm, this can be difficult even inside
our own homes. Now we are going to put them in tight fitting
boots without a whole lot of insulation and move around on the
snow for hours at a time. If we do things the wrong way, they
are going to sweat and this sweat is going to make them cold.
What to do? Well the first thing that you might be told is to
wear extra pairs of socks. Wrong!! This will only create a bigger
problem. It will not help keep your feet warm, it will make
them sweat at first and then get cold. Additionally, if your
ski-boots were fitted correctly, there will not be sufficient
room for an extra pair of ski socks. You will either cram your
foot, thoce inhibiting blood flow and encouraging cold feet
or your boot was too big and this will adversely impact your
skiing and success. Wear one pair of good quality ski-socks
that will wick away the perspiration. Don't expect your feet
to be toasty warm, just not cold. Remember the more you move,
the warming they will stay, so keep moving. By the way, if your
boots have been correctly fitted to you, there probably won't
be room for foot or toe warmers except fully installed the electronic
kind
As
for the hands, this is somewhat easier. The very same principles
apply to hands as it does to feet. There are hundreds of options
out there. Some are very expensive and others are really cheap.
Some are synthetic and others are made of nature material. Here
is a clue. Check out what the instructors, lift attendants,
ski patrollers are wearing. They spend hours on end out in the
cold and cannot afford frost-bite. Don't be afraid to walk up
to them and ask for their advice. One difference with hands
is that you may choose to wear a glove inner or liner in addition.
This is fine so long as it wicks away the perspiration. Also,
gloves do have room for hand-warmers. Infact, some modern gloves
even have a special pocket for them.
