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In his search for a new freeride glove, Baschi Bender, a long-time PowderGuide photographer, has always taken a very critical approach due to his on-and-off job. This time he seems to have made a really good catch.

Our partner Roeckl Sports has a whole range of interesting gloves in its programme, which are not only of high-quality workmanship, but are also often made from the most sustainable materials possible. We have tested how one of the top models, the Mieders GTX, performs in practice.

The glove comes from Roeckl Sports' PFC-free, ecologically orientated Ecoseries and has been tested on the piste as well as freeriding, in imperial weather and in snowstorms. The gloves are characterised by their combination of design and functionality. Roeckl has been developing gloves for almost 200 years, and the new ECO.SERIES has now been created using the expertise and experience gained to offer sustainable alternatives.

The Masao 3 in 1 Glove consists of a thickly insulated outer glove and a thin liner. The overall package is a fairly warm glove for the usual winter applications. The liner is suitable for fine motorised activities such as operating touchscreens.

With the Session Knit gloves by Black Diamond, you won't get cold fingers on your powder runs any time soon!

The 2022/2023 season is currently in the starting blocks. The first snow has fallen, but there's not much going on in the terrain yet. Nevertheless, Christmas is already approaching, more or less suddenly! As suitable gifts for freeriders and ski tourers is always welcome, we are once again presenting the PowderGuide editorial team's Christmas wishes this year.

Since my antiquated Marmot work glove is slowly giving up because the leather is getting thin and the seams are tearing in places, I've been looking around for a replacement.

I'm sure most of you are familiar with this feeling: it tingles at first and then starts to burn. Especially on cold days, it happens again and again that your fingers suddenly hurt when you are finally back in the warmth. The reason for this is, of course, the cold. We freeriders love it, because without cold there would be no snow, but cold fingers are simply annoying and unpleasant! Warm gloves are therefore essential.

The Wildspitze model is a classic in the gloves line-up from PowderGuide partner Zanier. The gloves were developed in collaboration with the Austrian Mountain Rescue Service and offer a good compromise between a feeling of movement and warmth.

The Tyrolean family company Zanier sells the Evolution.xsx, the lobster counterpart to the Revolution.xsx, the finger glove model from Zanier. Lobster or trigger gloves are characterised by the fact that several fingers are wrapped together and the index finger and thumb are each individually wrapped in fabric, leather or other material.

My grandmother, who learned to drive in the 1950s, still raves about the chic gloves that people wore when driving back then - white leather gloves on the leather steering wheel, that was simply stylish, apparently.

Who actually is Philippe Raoux? Goggle spits out three possible people: A winegrower from Châteaux d'Arsac near Bordeaux, an osteopath from Singapore and a ski instructor and mountain guide from Val d'Isere. Well, in the case of ski gloves, it's clear that the ski instructor gave the gloves their name, but read on to find out what the other two professions and the gloves are all about...