Ski Gloves
Slot: Hands clothing
Harvest: 1 × [Cloth]; 10 minutes
Repair: 1 × [Cloth]; 30 minutes; 25% condition
Ski Gloves are low-to-mid tier Clothing. They provide the same warmth bonus as the Wool Mittens, but offer 0.5°C (0.9°F) more windchill protection, 2% more wildlife protection, and 10% more waterproofing. This comes at the expense of the ski gloves being 0.4kg heavier.
Ski Gloves is a Hands item in The Long Dark. It adds 1°C warmth and 1°C windproofing. Waterproofing is 30%. It weighs 0.5 kg.
Within the Hands slot its 1°C warmth ranks #4 of 13 entries here — mid-pack for that layer.
At 2°C per kg its warmth-to-weight ratio ranks #44 of 100 clothing items with both values recorded — a middling ratio.
Its 3% protection is a small edge in a predator struggle, though mobility and warmth matter more in most runs.
Note the 1% mobility penalty — it slows you slightly, so a lighter inner layer can be the better trade when you are carrying a heavy load.
Crafting notes: it repairs with 1 × Cloth; 30 minutes; 25% condition and harvests into 1 × Cloth; 10 minutes.
Verdict: Overall Ski Gloves is a 1°C Hands piece.
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