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The Hestra Army Leather Wool Terry is a short five-finger leather ski glove built around a removable wool liner instead of a waterproof membrane. Hestra's own Performance spec says so plainly — Waterproof: No, "the glove does not include a waterproof membrane." Leaving the membrane out is part of why it scores 6/8 Agile for mobility, and why Hestra says it is "not designed to keep hands dry in sustained wet conditions." Cold, dry snow: a workhorse. Wet snow: the wrong glove.
The backhand is impregnated cowhide, the palm Army goat leather — Hestra calls both "durable and proofed." Proofed, not waterproof. The leather is where the 7/8 Heavy duty rating comes from. The outward-facing palm seams ("Outseams in palm") put nothing between your hand and the pole grip, which is the source of the 6/8 Agile score. The short neoprene cuff makes this an under-cuff glove, not a gauntlet.
Hestra rates it 5/8 Toasty — "noticeably warm, built for sustained exposure to cold." That is Hestra's own relative eight-point index, not a temperature rating. There is no membrane and no separate insulation fill: the warmth is the wool liner itself — wool terry at the palm, wool pile over the back of the hand, materials Hestra describes as "mostly wool with a high insulating ability, also when damp." So the ceiling wording is water-resistant, never waterproof. That resistance is an impregnation in the leather, and an impregnation depletes with use: plan on re-treating it. Hestra publishes no windproof rating for this style, so we do not print one.
Hestra sizes gloves numerically by hand circumference, not S/M/L — measure your hand against Hestra's own size guide. Hestra's catalogue for this style in Grey (Art no 3001620-350) runs sizes 6 to 11. PTO stocks three of them: 8, 9 and 10, in Grey only.
It suits cold, dry, inland snow, and skiers who want to feel the pole and the buckle without giving up a leather glove's lifespan. For wet coastal snow or spring slush, Hestra sells a better answer for less: the CZone Mountain 5-finger (3002760) has a real waterproof membrane at $125 against this glove's $180, and trades away leather durability (5/8 against 7/8) to get it. If your hands run cold, the same glove exists as a mitt (3001621) at the same $180: 7/8 Extreme for warmth against this glove's 5/8, paid for in dexterity (3/8 against 6/8). None is better in the abstract; they answer different problems.
