WoolWeenies Club

[kmehrzad]

And I further remembered what I do when it's really cold while skiing 'cause a friend who used to own an outdoor store in New England highly recommended it and 'cause the bf used to use 'em when he used to mountaineer & ice climb.

Dachstein boiled wool mittens. Kinda old school, but they keep your hands warm.

copied from elsewhere:
Ragg wool is the most natural of all spun wools. The natural lanolin remains in the fibre to repell water and remain warm even when wet. Boiled wool products are made by knitting them and then "boiling" them to tighten the weave and shrink them down to size this results in a very dense fabric. The boiled wool process results in a better insulated product.

http://www.joe-brown.com/outdoor-equ...lnmitts-2.html

some reviews here:
http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/review/...3/v/1/sp/#6382

Do you know if these Dachstein mittens be purchased anywhere in the US? I've tried looking myself but am coming up 'empty handed.'

[Cataboo]

Almost all the websites I'm pulling up selling them are in the UK. I bought mine from campmor a few years back. From the forums of people looking for them, at somepoint, ortovox bought dachsteins and you could buy them under the ortovox name:
http://mountaineer.com/store/merchan...egory_Code=020

That place has 'em for $50, which seems to be a lot for wool mittens.

I'll ask my friend up in New England, 'cause from what I could tell they were pretty big with the vermont/new englander crowd.

From reading this thread, if you get a really really big pair of ragg wool mittens, you can boil them yourself till they shrink down:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/arch...hp/t-2379.html

The person saying how to do that is DebW, I wonder if it's the same DebW on here.

[DebW]

I'll ask my friend up in New England, 'cause from what I could tell they were pretty big with the vermont/new englander crowd.

From reading this thread, if you get a really really big pair of ragg wool mittens, you can boil them yourself till they shrink down:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/arch...hp/t-2379.html

The person saying how to do that is DebW, I wonder if it's the same DebW on here.

Yup, same DebW. I believe I mentioned Dachsteins very early on in this thread. I've had mine for 30 years. I bought some for friends from Campmor about 7 years ago. I've not actually tried boiling my own.

[Grog]

Wore my Wallaroo boxers (Sugoi) for the first time today for running. It was around freezing point and I was planning to be out for at least 90 minutes.

I was skeptical (I don't wear boxers generally) but I completely forgot about them as soon as I walked out of the door. Very comfy, didn't grip me or pinch me in any way. And my bum stayed nicely warm.

I was a wool-lady on my run: only my shoes, my tights and my windbreaker jackets were not made of wool. I had wool socks, a thick-ish Icebreaker top, wool boxers, wool bra, wool gloves, and wool beanie.

My name is Grog and I am a woolweenie.

[Jolt]

Do you know if these Dachstein mittens be purchased anywhere in the US? I've tried looking myself but am coming up 'empty handed.'

I was wondering the same thing! How ridiculous would shipping be from the UK?

[Crankin]

I wore one of my Shaks, with a Craft base layer and my Go lite jacket, with the sleeves off, along with my Jones Ware hiking pants and Ibex boy shorts, for a snowy hike today. I felt very wool-ish! I even changed into my Smart Wool liners after i warmed up and took off my heavier gloves.
I love my Jones Ware pants. They look like yoga pants and are wide on the bottom, so my hiking boots fit underneath. Plus, I had them do a semi-custom sizing, since I was sort of in between sizes and the length. It only cost $10.00 extra. I even wore them cycling last week, just had to put a band around the ankle.

[Jolt]

Well, while we're on the subject of what wool we wore, here's what I wore for my snowy hike today. Ibex Loose Tights on the bottom, and on top, an Icebreaker midweight zip-neck with a lightweight Icebreaker tank underneath and an Icebreaker vest over top. Also a Smartwool lightweight hat, wool mittens, and wool socks. I would have worn a pair of my Icebreaker boy shorts but both were in the laundry. The only non-wool pieces of clothing I had on were my sports bra and shoes.