Originally Posted by UniChris

My problems seems to be that my fingers get cold AND sweaty. So far have been wearing typical online full finger "winter" cycling gloves that I actually bought for summer sun protection, for which their relative wind porosity was great.

I was thinking I wanted something warmer so tossed a pair of ski gloves in my pack, but ended up not switching to them because I found I was sweating through the cycling ones and that's part of why my fingers were cold.

Looking at them with the faux-leather grip side and porous fabric back, I almost started to wonder if the design is backwards. Ie, perhaps what I really want is something wool for warmth and sweat tolerance, but with a wind stop back and fingertips. Starting to get tempted to try to improvise some sort of overmittens with a pack cloth back, and maybe a porous lycra palm side possibly set up such that it somehow supported a feature where I could tug on the shell and unhook it from over glove covered fingers when I needed to do things.