Winter Sports Skin & Recovery | Rhino Skin Solutions

Winter · Skin is gear

Your gloves aren't the problem.

You sweat through the skin track or the first three laps, then you stop moving and your fingers go. Wet skin dumps heat far faster than dry skin. A warmer glove doesn't fix that. Drier hands do.

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Skin is gear

Where this started

Dawn patrol taught us the sweat lesson.

Mount Bachelor, Broken Top, Tam McArthur Rim. The Rhino crew skis the Cascades all winter, resort and backcountry, and the thing that finally made sense of cold hands wasn't a glove. It was a bootpack. You climb hard, you sweat, you transition at the top, and in five minutes the hands are gone. The sweat took the heat with it.

So the winter kit starts the night before with the same aluminum-free sweat control climbers use, on hands and feet. Then the skin: cold, dry air and wind crack knuckles in a weekend, glare torches lips, and glassy fingertips sting on every chairlift bar. Dry first, then protect, then rebuild. That's the whole winter.

The sweat-to-frozen curve

How hands go cold, and where to break the curve.

A winter day in five stops. The fix is earlier than you think.

The night before · 9 PMBreak the curve here.

Dry Spray or Performance on hands and feet before bed. Less sweat inside gloves and boots tomorrow means the heat you make stays in.

Dry Spray

Performance

The skin track · 7 AMWork hard, sweat hard.

This is where the damp starts. Liners on, shell gloves off while you're moving. Zinc on the lips before the sun hits the snow.

Reef Safe SPF 15 Zinc Lip Balm – Gentle Vanilla Scent

The transition · 9 AMStop moving, lose heat.

Swap damp liners for dry ones. Hands into mitts before they go. Split stick on any fingertip that's cracked.

Split

Après · 4 PMFix what the wind did.

Hydrate on glassy, stinging skin. Massage Cream on quads, hips, and stiff hands at the lodge, so they circulate.

Hydrate

Massage Cream

That night · 9 PMRebuild, then repeat.

Repair on the whole hand. Split+ on knuckles and heels that have gone past dry. Dry Spray again for tomorrow.

Repair

Split+

Dry Spray

Find your way in

Tell us what happens. We'll point.

No score and no wrong answers. Pick what sounds like you, and every answer opens another door: a fix, a page, a longer read.

The pack

What's in the jacket.

Pocket sizes for the hill, full sizes for the cabin. The Split stick lives in the chest pocket all season.

All of it, one boxPowder Day

Dry Spray, Repair, Split, Massage Cream. The winter routine in one box.

The whole routinePowder Day~~$102.95~~$85.00

9 items · pick a size, hit Add

Hands and feet, the night beforeDry Spray$18.95

Cream versionPerformance$18.95

Pocket fix for fingertipsSplit$4.95

Knuckles and heels, overnightSplit+$18.95

GlareReef Safe SPF 15 Zinc Lip Balm – Gentle Vanilla Scent$4.95

Glassy, stinging skinHydrate$18.95

Every nightRepair$18.95

Quads, hips, handsMassage Cream$18.95

Ten minutes at the cabinRAD Roller - Helix$49.00

The crew

The people who test this in the cold.

Resort, backcountry, park, ice. Our winter crew skis and rides the Cascades from November to May.

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Seen on the hill

Show us the dawn patrol.

Headlamps at the trailhead, the skin track, the frozen glove shot. This wall is yours.

Backcountry skier touring the Wasatch mountains — Rhino skin care for winter sports.

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Field reports

From the comments.

★★★★★

“I'm not a climber, but I work in construction and backcountry ski, so my hands get pretty beat up, sometimes in very cold temps. I use this stuff daily before bed and it really nourishes the skin and relieves discomfort, from wrists to fingertips.”

★★★★★

“I seriously don't know how I did it without Spit. I live in the desert and have super dry skin, and in the winter when the wind is blowing sometimes I can't even hold on to jugs. It's an absolute game changer and improved my confidence immediately in less than ideal conditions.”

★★★★★

“Out here in Colorado, with its low humidity, I've had huge issues with glass skin, especially on cold, windy days and routes with low texture. Rhino Spit has saved my bacon more than once. If you have naturally dry skin, are an older climber, or live in a dry climate, always have some on hand.”