Climbing Gloves

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Great for all-around rock climbing.

Splitter Gloves are synthetic-leather “tape” gloves for hand jamming. As someone who has used real tape gloves on and off, and on and off and on and off, I can attest to the Splitter Gloves’ worthiness and utility.

Close fitting and contoured into a semi-closed fist, the Torque latches onto your hand, doesn’t creep off even when you are hanging full bore from tool handles, and isn’t pumpy to close. It’s also simple, with no cumbersome cuff to interfere with your jacket or tool leash, if you still use those things.

Anyone who’s suffered through the “screaming barfies” knows how hard it is to find a good mixed-climbing glove.

Field test report for the Outdoor Research Stormcell Climbing Glove.

LOOK AROUND THE nation’s top sport-climbing areas and you’ll see all the hotshots feeding slack and catching falls while outfitted in various makes of fingerless gloves.