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Helmet / Goggles

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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
JUS DEETCH ZEE HELMET

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albinomountainbadger wrote

If you need glasses you could consider contact lenses, prescription inserts for goggles, and goggles designed to go over the top of your prescription glasses.

I wear glasses and don't get on with contact lenses so I always were prescription glasses (reactolite lenses) or subscription sunglasses with a helmet

Grateful for any advice on where to find prescription inserts for goggles and what type of goggles are designed to fit over prescription glasses
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valleyboy, Ok well 'over the top googles' (OTG) are basically a larger pair of goggles with with a segment of the foam cut to allow the arms of the glasses to pass through. Many makes are available and stocked in pretty much any ski shop, but there isn't the same range as with normal goggles; you'll generally be limited to a black frame and category 1 or 2 lens. Availability is an issue as they tend to sell out the evening of a snowy day as all the prescription sunglasses wearers realise they need better blizzard protection for the next morning. As OTGs aren't 'cool' they tend to be quite cheap.

Negatives: Prone to steaming up; arms of glasses may be uncomfortable in your helmet.

Prescription inserts are available from many brands but I don't know if Brand A inserts will work with Brand B goggles. Google some names such as Smith, Addidas, Bolle and SportsRX to see their own take on doing this. Hopefully someone who owns a pair might comment, although there are already many other threads on this topic eg http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=72249 so perhaps start there?

Negatives: Cost; may need your glasses in your pocket for when you take the goggles off!
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albinomountainbadger

Thanks, good link to sound advice
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One word: Ruroc. They're a Glocester company that makes full face helmets. No mess, no fuss, badass look. I have 2 and LOVE them. Most of my friends have them and none of us can remember a time when we were more comfortable.
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Ruroc? Oh dear.. Was your application to be an extra in Star Wars turned down? Wink


Welcome to SH btw Very Happy
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none of us can remember a time when we were more comfortable.
Perhaps when you weren't wearing a helmet at all?


Ruroc - Not really practical with a hip flask, chocolate bar or for quick snog in a gondola are they?
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Rurocs are pretty compatible with all of that, actually. I suppose you have to weigh 5 seconds of unclipping the mask for all that against pulling down a soggy balaclava scarf disaster. One dude tethered his mask to the helmet so it's even more effective. I mean, you can't knock a Ruroc unless you've spent at least a couple days in one.
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Fwiw, I don't wear a scarf or balaclava. In extreme cold I might put on a buff or similar. Other than that I just do up my jacket on the lift and tuck into it. I much prefer having my face open to the elements in all but the most disgusting conditions.

Then again, I grew up skiing in Scotland, the home of horizontal hail Smile
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Snowzilla, I take your point about a soggy scarf across the face, but how often does that really happen? In all my years of skiing I've needed some sort of face protection about one day in 15.
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Of course, you should never wear sunglasses with a helmet. Then again, I'm struggling to decide which looks coolest......Very Happy





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 You know it makes sense.
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Without appearing contentious over the wise reasoning of goggles with helmets over sunglasses, I ain’t no fashion model, I've been using Rayzor sunglasses with my helmet for a number of years, had a couple of tumbles through lazy skiing catching edges and crossing tips, no injuries even when I stabbed myself with the handle of my ski stick where the glasses took the full impact.
They are affordable and give good UV400 protection (important) and good in the scratch resistant department and claim to be shatterproof, and they also avoid the pander eye effect. Like the image foxtrotzulu. So I would vote sunglasses. Cool
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
I saw a small boy at Geneva airport a few years ago, who appeared to have some sort of very peculiar birthmark across his face. I felt quite sorry for him, though I did wonder why it was quite so symmetrical. Then I realised you'd get exactly that set of tan lines from a class A helmet that covers your ears and some of your cheeks, a set of goggles and a scarf or jacket that does up to your chin. I hope his parents felt suitably guilty.
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