When tree climbing, you need to protect your hands as gripping ropes and grasping tree trunks and branches with rough barks can chafe or even graze and scrape your palms. At the same time, however, you need to maintain your manual dexterity in order to be able to manipulate your carabiners, ascenders, rope grabs, and friction hitches as well as tie different types of knots. The Wells Lamont 7690L Grain Cowhide Leather Gloves does a good job of providing adequate protection without impairing the functioning of your hands and fingers.
The Wells Lamont 7690L is designed for both professional and recreational use. It can be used while operating construction, industrial, and farm machinery. And it can certainly be used, not only by tree climbers, but by mountain climbers as well.
The gloves are made of a cowhide leather palm and a soft stretch fabric back. This combination provides extra protection to your palms without compromising your manual dexterity. Also, the stretch fabric assures a snug fit keeping the gloves in place even when gripping and twisting ropes. The fabric is also breathable, thus helping keep your hands from sweating inside the gloves.
The cowhide on the palm section of the gloves extends to the upper end of the back of the index, middle, and ring fingers as well as over the knuckles to protect them from possible abrasions.
For added comfort when gripping ropes or branches, the palm is fitted with a reinforced padding that masks the rough feel of tree barks and absorbs the heat from the rope friction as you rappel from the treetops.