Cold pinkies

Arms straight by your sides, turn your hands out 90 degrees at the wrists, and pump the shoulders up and down. You can actually feel the blood flowing into your hands after about 15 seconds. I had to do it a lot in St Moritz as it was -27c up on Piz Nair.

Mittens are better than gloves - the fingers share the heat and the exposed surface area is reduced.

You can wear liners inside for extra insulation - silk if you prefer.

andymol2 wrote: You can wear liners inside for extra insulation - silk if you prefer.

I have silk inner gloves for use on my motorbike when it is cold enough to warrant using them - shall be taking them with me to "N" in a few weeks!

Bought a nice pair of liner gloves last week in La Plagne. It was very cold on several of the days - the straps on our ski poles were usually frozen solid by the time we got up some of the higher chairlifts :shock:

I found the liners made all the difference and ensured that I had nice toasty pinkies all day :lol:

Two pairs of thin ski socks took care of my tootsies :wink:

Tony - I just mimicked that dance in teh office to work it out - I got some odd looks :shock:

Andymol - with mittens I find I cant do anything - only having a thumb and a big chunky hand getting things out of pockets is a challenge. Hip flask would need to be on a bungee rope!

Wanderer - that sounds mighty chilly! I will wait until I get there on teh weekend. Temps not looking that low, just snowy mon - wed :D