RE: [Philmont]: cold weather gear (leather gloves)

In 2002 my fingers became cracked and painful by the 5th or 6th day
despite the application of hand lotion many times each day before the
??pm limit for applying a smellable to your body. They got so bad that
operating a zipper was very painful and hard to do. When I got home they
peeled for two weeks.

For our June 2004 trek and pre-PSR training, I bought some thin, leather
work gloves. They were soft and flexible and I could even work my
digital camera while wearing them. I still applied hand lotion several
times a day. I wore the gloves 80% of my waking hours. I had not worn
gloves so much since I loaded hay all day as a farm boy. They would take
me back every so often, especially at Rich Cabins in the barn with the
strong scent of alfalfa hay and animals. They worked great and I would
recommend them for all advisors with soft, office hands that mostly
shuffle paper and pound computer keyboards.

I branded mine at Clarks Fork with a cattle brand on one and the horse
brand on the other. They will become part of my PSR memorabilia. I
will carry leather gloves as part of my weekend camping gear as well as
my backpacking gear in the future.

Our other two advisors suffered cracked, painful fingers as I had in
2002. (Yes, I had shared my 2002 tales with them before we left.) Each
had a pair, but was not too keen to wear them.

Our youth mostly carried thin, polyester gloves or glove liners. I saw
them worn often on cold mornings, but not at any other time. Our kids
move like molasses on a cold morning. The youth did not seem to have the
problem with chapped, cracked fingers that we adults experienced.

Larry Sims
Philmont 2004 Expedition Coordinator
Troop 1288 Katy, TX
610-C4 2004 Trek #24

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Received on Wed Jul 7 12:24:25 2004