I lost a glove last night the night before last on the slopes. I was originally annoyed, but the more I think about it, the more I realize this is a good thing.
My gloves (err...glove) is a generic black glove branded solely with "Thinsulate" which I got sometime when I was still living in Los Alamos (read: nearly ten years ago). They took a lot of abuse before I started snowboarding, and now that I'm often manhandling the steel edges of a board, have a ton of nicks in the fingertips where the fabric is starting to separate.
Plus, they typically got really damp and were a pain in the butt to take on and off. And since they had no wrist strap, I put a ton of energy into ensuring I didn't lose one midway through the day. You can see how long that lasted.
Had I not lost one of them, I probably would have eeked through for at least another year because they were, for all intents and purposes, adequate for keeping my hands warm.
Good riddance.
I can strongly recommend the Burton gloves I got this season. The inner gloves give a lot of warmth, but the skin can still breathe. The little pockets for handwarmers are a bit gimmicky (keeping the warmers in there slows the reaction quite a bit and so they dont produce as much heat as they could), but still nice.
http://store.burton.com/ALLBurton/Gloves/Mens/PRD_70481/GoreTex+Glove.jsp?bmUID=1203458961316
Groovy! I didn't get the Burtons, but I picked up a similar pair on closeout at REI on Saturday so I'd have gloves for a later-that-night tubing at Snoqualmie.