I am big on sun protection. I know way too many people who have had skin cancer. I wear Under Armour fingerless gloves, a long sleeve Under Armour, Columbia, or Huk shirt, Columbia or Buff buff, and a Tilley sunhat. 

 

I've had the Under Armour gloves for 2 years now and they are like new despite many hours if being worn while kayaking and fishing.

 

If you want a new hat, you want a Tilley. I've had mine for 2 years now and it still looks like new. I just toss it in the wash when it needs it. I highly recommend their LTM6 and am picking up a LTM8 this year for hotter weather.

On 5/20/2019 at 12:08 PM, Oregon Native said:

I like the arthritis idea....but it does strike me as interesting that people wear gloves for sun protection but wear short sleeve shirts!?

It works for me. I have non-segmental vitiligo, which means white spots on my hands and around my eyes (so far). It kinda looks like the paint is starting to peel off ?

 

 

I have to be extra careful because my skin basically has no color on these spots, like no melanin whatsoever, so it goes from white to sunburnt like *that*. Gloves may have their drawbacks, but it beats having to apply thick SPF 90+ sunscreen every hour

 

 

(it looks worse now during the summer because I tan very easily everywhere else, so there's a lot of contrast. During the winter it's barely noticeable.)