Poster: A snowHead
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Evening all,
We're off to Austria in a few weeks and I need some ski goggles for my 4 year old who will take to the slopes for the first time (apart from a practice in the Snowdome last weekend).
Can someone recommend ski goggles suitable for his age? Ideally both high and low light lenses, I don't mind buying 2 sets of goggles.
Thanks
Kersh
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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From what I've seen, kids can ski in all conditions with quite dark lenses. My son (now 8 years old) has Smith Optics Grom goggles, which will probably be a touch too big for your child. But we ski a reasonable amount and he wanted green mirror goggles for Christmas last year. Even when it's getting dark he seems to be fine with them on.
When he was 4 years old he had some Scott goggles. I think they were Scott hook up. He needed some new ones and those were in the resort shop, fitted well etc so we bought them.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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When our children were that age we bought some from Aldi/Lidl. They seemed to do the job. Dark lenses only.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Trespass/Dare2Be do decent kids googles as well
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Get the best protection you can possibly afford. Eye damage is nigh on impossible to avoid.
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esaw1 wrote: |
Get the best protection you can possibly afford. Eye damage is nigh on impossible to avoid. |
@esaw1, sounds like you are suggesting you need to spend a lot? anything wrong with the £4.99 Decathlon ones @gravity-slave details? Have 100% UV protection.
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esaw1 wrote: |
Eye damage is nigh on impossible to avoid. |
This is nonsense. Can you quote your reference and don't just quote a reference that says UV is bad for cells. You don't need a PhD in Cell Biology to know that.
I have one mind you and I also work for a high power light source manufacturer who make UV light sources.
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Fit is key IMHO, especially as your Jnr will be wearing a helmet - not the whole Gaper BS thing, but if they find them uncomfortable or annoying they'll just take them off if they're in lessons, and you can't expect an instructor to keep telling them to put them back on or sort them out like you would if you were out with them. We really struggled to get the kids to keep goggles on until we found a better fitting set for them.
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Decathlon for ours. But we could visit the shop to check fit before buying.
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