 Poster: A snowHead
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I am off on my first ski trip since 2010 in a couple of weeks and was wondering what people wear on sunny days if they wear a helmet. Back then I didn't wear a helmet and had googles for flat light and sunglasses for sunny days (obviously!). I am trying to decide what to do this year as my goggles don't have changeable lenses so I may need to buy a new pair if I wear a helmet.
Are sunglasses with a helmet (a) practical? Do the arms dig into your head? (b) and this is the important one - is it acceptable from a style point of view? I am not ashamed to admit that I am from the "look good, ski good" school of thought.
I used to wear nothing on my head most days as I enjoyed then wind in my hair so I'm undecided on a helmet but that's another issue! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have gogs on my helmet all the time and carry sunnies in my pocket, I find both useful. Sunglasses don't dig into you head if you get the right ones.
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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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Used sunglasses at Christmas with helmet. It was fine, didn't really care about how it looked!
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wear sunnies and helmet all the time unless its bad weather and then use goggles oakleys and julbos sunnies seem to work well and slip in under helmet no probs
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I wear specs so have to have them on all the time & rarely use goggles as specs fog up, last week in the lovely sun I just wore shades.
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A: no
B: NOOOOOOoooooo! Its all about the goggles baby, and the bigger they are, the better you'll ski.
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Goggles do work a lot better with a helmet. I used to hate goggles due to strap/hair issues, but since wearing a helmet I far prefer to use them. I find sunnies fog up quite easily with a helmet and just don't feel very secure. Plus you can't put your sunnies up on your head when you're wearing a helmet (e.g. when entering a lift station/bar/toilet), whereas this works fine with goggles.
It's not a style issue for me, I'm way past the stage of caring what I look like.
P.S. My googles don't have changeable lenses either, I just use them every day regardless of conditions.
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To young to remember CHiPs?
Mirror RB Aviators if its sunny, big goggles if not.
No helmet if really hot.
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Hmmm ... may have to invest in some tinted goggles then.
Thanks for the replies.
@blahblahblah, I have no idea what CHiPs are, so that may be a yes! The 6 year hiatus was mainly because my parents stopped paying for me  !
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Last week I was rocking a helmet and shades with a GoPro in the tellytubby position.
IDGAF 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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get goggles with good photochromic lenses and forget about arseing about changeing lenses or carrying extra sunglasses, goggles etc.
I use Smith Red sensor photochromic, dull snowy/rainy (Whistler) days, bright blue sky days through to sking under floodlights at night, and there are other very good options - Bolle, Julbo, Zeal.
And the Smith Vantage helmet has excelelent controllable ventilation, so no issue on hot days ( the ear pieces are removable also if seriously hot weather...)
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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End up wearing sunglasses with helmet more often than googles which are sitting up on the helmet if needed.
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You know it makes sense.
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get goggles with good photochromic lenses
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You can get Bolle Modulator goggles which are OK from about £40 if your budget doesn't stretch to expensive Smith/Oakley etc. versions.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Evidently shades and a helmet was a massive fashion crime. But this year all the bright young things at the Folie Douce are sporting helmets and shades - mainly aviators, so there is a fleeting chance I may be fashionable for a week 
I just like shades as they give better peripheral vision and don't steam up as much. Gogs for poor vis days.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@chocksaway, yeah but they were all doing it ironically
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I prefer the sunglasses. always used to wear with a hat before the helmet rule became rightly enforced.
I have a pare of Oakley Half Jackets. You can pop out the lenes at will and they are lightweight, wrap around and grip the head well. To that extent I have polarised and non-poloarised lenses which really helps. Also you know a pare of Oakley lenses is going to better than the average goggles.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I always wear goggles with a helmet. Sunnies for sitting outside the restaurant in the sun with my helmet off.
No practical reason for not wearing sunnies with a helmet, I just dislike the way it looks. Many people don't care.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I wear 'hard' contact lenses so won't ski without something over my eyes. My preferred option is sunglasses: Cat 3 Decathlon Triathlon wrap-arounds, slightly mirrored, are my preferred option and, for me, are a wonderful close to face fit (small face) and very comfortable, with slim plastic arms; no problem with helmet at all. I do have Cat 4 mountain glasses but have never found them necessary ski-ing yet (though have when mountaineering).
If visibility is good and bright enough, I much prefer sunglasses but sometimes the cold or wind (or just going fast enough ) can make my eyes water, so then it's back to goggles.
Goggles seem much more fashion accessories these days, and I am still wearing only goggles when boarding (but do fall over a lot more!) - but personally I prefer sunglasses if I can; to me, they're more 'fashionable' ( not that I do fashion; classy stylish, perhaps?) I just look like an idiot in all but the smallest goggles.
Many triathlon-type wrap-around glasses are available in all price ranges and many have interchangeable S1-S3/4 lenses too, including clears also.
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No no no, I'm have no fashion sense at all and look like a bin man on the mountain but even I would never......ever wear sunnys with a helmet......ever.
I would even find it hard to ride with someone who was!!
Don't do it.....you will thank me for this advice when get your colour photos back from the chemist two week after you gat back from your holiday.
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I got the impression that new skiers were advised to wear sunglasses in the sun and get goggles for cloudy days as a purely cost saving exercise, as most people own a pair of sunglasses already.
But they don't keep the sun out as well as goggles, they're uncomfortable under a helmet, they look silly, they don't keep the wind out, they're more likely to break when you face plant, and did I mention that they look silly?
My goggles don't have easily changeable lenses, so I carry a spare. It takes about 30 seconds to swap. I also carry sunglasses, no one wants to eat lunch in their goggles.
Don't do it 
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@SFR_, just like you I last skied when it was only about 10% who wore helmets, now its nearer 90-95%, and I was worried about wearing sunnies as it was deemed to be uber uncool. I was not even sure about wearing a helmet, but seeing as I was going with the kids and was told to set an example by the OH, I obeyed her orders but went against fashion police rules and wore sunnies or goggles when the weather dictated and not some spotty faced numpty with keks round their knees!!!!
it was quite liberating!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The only sunglasses that keep the wind out of your eyes are called goggles
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| chocksaway wrote: |
I just like shades as they give better peripheral vision and don't steam up as much. Gogs for poor vis days. |
+1 As is my preference for wearing sunglasses over googles. I only wear googles when I have to. I dont know why people insist on wearing them all the time they are on the slopes, what have they got to hide? Using someone else's lift pass?
Not 80's ersatz aviators for me, nineties is the decade for me so A frame Oakleys with blue tinted lenses.
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California Highway Patrol - can't beat a bit of CHiPs, with Poncharello and Baker(?)
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Whats problems just with googles? Much more comfortable for skiing then normal sunglasses, and with all possible colors of lenses, you are fine even for brightest days.
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Poster: A snowHead
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For me a helmet and sunglasses was uncomfortable as the arms of the glasses didn't sit inside the helmet without pressing to much against my head, but I suppose that depends on the model of helmet and sunglasses. Just out of interest, what's the problem with wearing goggles and a helmet?
As for a fashion choice, it seems to me that many of us wear things on the slopes that we wouldn't be seen in elsewhere, so does anyone really care if we fall slightly foul of the fashion police...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| primoz wrote: |
| Whats problems just with googles? Much more comfortable for skiing then normal sunglasses, and with all possible colors of lenses, you are fine even for brightest days. |
Whether goggles or sunglasses are more comfortable is very much a matter for personal preference. You don't see goggles on the beach, and there are reasons for that. As long as you have sunglasses that aren't made uncomfortable by the helmet pressing the arms into your head then sunglasses are probably more comfortable. Less likely to fog, better peripheral vision etc. unless you plan on looking a complete fool at lunch, sitting in the sun with goggles on then you need to carry sunglasses anyway.
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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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| foxtrotzulu wrote: |
| You don't see goggles on the beach, and there are reasons for that. |
I totally agree. I misunderstood the point of skiing, as it would never occur me to compare it with laying on beach. On beach people normally don't ski, so yes, there's very little of use for ski goggles. But then again, I guess most of people don't ski in ski places either, so yup, you are right, sunglasses are more comfortable for sitting on terrace drinking beer For skiing I still go with goggles being more comfortable, as there's no wind or snow blowing to your eyes, and with normal use, I never managed to have problems with goggles getting foggy.
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| primoz wrote: |
| foxtrotzulu wrote: |
| You don't see goggles on the beach, and there are reasons for that. |
I totally agree. I misunderstood the point of skiing, as it would never occur me to compare it with laying on beach. On beach people normally don't ski, so yes, there's very little of use for ski goggles. But then again, I guess most of people don't ski in ski places either, so yup, you are right, sunglasses are more comfortable for sitting on terrace drinking beer For skiing I still go with goggles being more comfortable, as there's no wind or snow blowing to your eyes, and with normal use, I never managed to have problems with goggles getting foggy. |
My point was that if you remove the 'practicality reasons' for wearing goggles i.e. driving snow, very cold air etc. then you are back to reasons of comfort. Nobody is suggesting wearing sunglasses in a blizzard and plenty of people have had problems with goggles fogging. Just read the threads on here to see. It's really down to personal preference. Many people like the feeling of a little more freedom sunglasses can give you and dislike the reduced peripheral vision of goggles. Others hate the arms of the sunglasses digging into your head and worry about the fashion aspect. Horses for courses.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It's pretty simple - do you care about what the 'people who care what people look like' think about you? If so you wear goggles only with a helmet, never sunglasses.
If you are in the IDGAF brigade, do what the hell you like, in the knowledge that the people who care what people look brigade with think you look like a twaz.
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It's pretty simple - do you care about what the 'people who care what people look like' think about you? If so you wear goggles only with a helmet, never sunglasses.
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Don't know if you have noticed but most people do care what they look like else we would all be walking around in standard issue overalls all day!
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| Legend. wrote: |
It's pretty simple - do you care about what the 'people who care what people look like' think about you? If so you wear goggles only with a helmet, never sunglasses.
If you are in the IDGAF brigade, do what the hell you like, in the knowledge that the people who care what people look brigade with think you look like a twaz. |
A visit to the hipster paradises of East London will quickly confirm that caring what you look like, and looking like a twaz are not mutally exclusive.
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Bringing hipsters into this is a whole different ball game...
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@SFR_,
It is not acceptable to wear sunglasses and a helmet. It looks 100% duff. If you ski at a sensible speed (in winter) then your eyes will be streaming so much then it will not be possible anyway. Have two pairs of goggles for different conditions and save the sunnies for when you have finished. Sunglasses should only be used with the legs out over a suitable hat. End of.
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@JayDub, That is just bolleaux!! As I explained earlier function over fashion wins every time in the mountains irrespective of the latest mandated fashion trend unless you have more money than sense and have fallen foul of the whole con that is fashion.
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