Outdoor Research

Splitter II Glove

Great protection for crack climbing

Familiarity:

I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions

Size Bought:

XS

Got these after scraping my hands up cracking climbing a couple times, and glad I did. They provide protection for the tops of your hands, while leaving the fingers free, but I do wish there was more padding like in some other crack climbing gloves (this could be personal preference, as I'm a novice climber). I'm an XS in most gloves and tried both the S and XS - was a little bit inbetween sizes with these gloves but kept the XS, so be sure to measure carefully. Overall, would recommend, as Backcountry has the best price I've seen around as well.

MIght be my favoite crack gloves

I like how they fit, they are not too thick but the finger and thumb loops are pretty thin, the weakest part.

Used them in forestry work. Worked amazing protecting the top of my hands pushing through brush and trees. Hands get too hot with any full gloves but these worked great!

They work! I found the finger holes slightly too big for my small hands and the material between kind of thin and sharp so the gloves don't cover my knuckles perfectly but they definitely get the job done- better than tape!

Great gloves

Gloves have been great. could had some more protection for the thumb but other than that they are great.

Good Protection Without Bulk

These gloves provide comfortable protection without adding too much friction. They aren't super grippy, but definitely an improvement over bare hands. I've worn them just under 10 times for multiple hours and they do stretch a slight bit, so definitely don't size up. Would get five stars if they were a little stickier.

Crack Gloves

I love how thin and durable these are, great from fingers to hand sizes

A decent crack glove.

This is a good crack glove for sensitivity. HOWEVER it is pretty thin (hence sensitive) and offers no thumb protection, so if you want a glove to protect you on your brutal fist crack project this probably isnt it. The glove is comfortable and the wrist loop is reinforced.

Soft and sticky!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] These gloves are awesome. They are soft and flexible yet stay put and stick to rock pretty well. Only thing is the sizing. I wish they had normal sizes. I got the XS, which doesn't quite cover the pinky side of my hand (not wide enough) but the S/M was too big and moved around a lot. If they just had a size Small, it would probably be perfect.

Seems good.

They are designed well and seem well made. I haven't used them and so it will be interesting to see how well they hold up.