 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@zazoupazou, welcome to snowheads! Maybe think the other way and look for "OTG" or "Over The Glasses" goggles, as I'm now having to do. I wear goggles a few days per year, but I wear my spectacles all day every day. I'd rather compromise on the goggles than the glasses
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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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My understanding is that what I have are OTG
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I do the same thing - I specifically looked for glasses with a quite small lens size, take your goggles with you when you go to look at the opticians, although it's quite tricky sometimes as the squarer-style lens tend to be larger.
I'm currently getting some new specs myself, but getting the new lenses cut for the frames I already have as I know they fit my goggles well.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@zazoupazou, The lenses on your glasses look fairly elongated (quite a wide rectangular shape). I bought a pair of round John Lennon-esque glasses a few years back specifically to fit under goggles. Normally I avoid wearing googles as I just don't like them, but we were going to Canada at Xmas and thought my eyes might need more protection from the cold. I took the goggles to the optician to try out a few pairs and the round ones worked best. They are frameless like yours and the legs are flexible, you don't really notice you are wearing them.
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I go back to lens for skiing. Bit harder to read the piste map than it used to be though
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@zazoupazou, Those look like Silhouette frames I had a pair and the arms were a problem as the come out quite wide and I was always worried about damaging them, they used to get stuck in the google as well.
I now have a separate pair of classes that are quite small they are Nike ones from Costo, no coating on the lenses keeping the cost down , they are similar to these https://tinyurl.com/3jjfnn4b.
I have always used OTG googles 
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I don't know if you've tried them, but contact lenses are your friend. I only ever wear them when I'm away in the mountains, but a box of daily disposables lasts me a week.
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I can't say I found glasses under normal googles worked at all well - they end up presses close to your face while still touching and rubbing on the google lens at the outer ends, and because they were close to the face they fogged every 2min.
I've not tried specific OTG googles myself but know people who have any they work a lot better as there's proper space for the glasses, letting them sit further away from your face and fogging much less.
What I ski with these days are goggles with prescription inserts and again the insert sits right out by the google lens so as far as possible from your face, helping keep fogging to a minimum.
Contacts are great...unless you have dry eyes. I've tried having a lens dry out while skiing and stick to the surface of me eyeball and, well let's say I don't recommend trying it!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Prescription inserts for your goggles.
OTG goggles work ok but they are a bit clunky. I bought a decathlon pair a number of years back relatively cheaply when I had an eye infection but found I needed my thinnest wireframe glasses with them.
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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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| Mjit wrote: |
| Contacts are great...unless you have dry eyes. I've tried having a lens dry out while skiing and stick to the surface of me eyeball and, well let's say I don't recommend trying it! |
Ouch! Have you asked your optician recently about changing your contact lenses? The tech has improved and they are a lot better for dry eyes than just a few years ago. I have dry eyes and as a result most contact lenses are impossible for me to wear for more than an hour or two. My current ones I can wear all day and have had no issues skiing.
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so, in the last couple of years I have needed glasses skiing. I have v large goggles and there is no problem with fit . Since covid though and being required to wear masks in the lift lines, they have been terrible. Really fogging up. Specialist drops have helped, but not eliminated it. On super cold days its a disaster. Always, regardless of cold I have to take all my gear off and demist on the chair. Like
So, went to opticians and got contacts. Contacts are just long distance, and he says get cheapy reading glasses in a pocket for the menus. Buy whatever helps once your lenses are in. He says it will alos help with my peripheral vision as my glasses have 3 lenses in and that means a reduced field of vision.
I have actually clinically small eyes, so small I have narrow angle glaucoma. First contact lens lesson I couldn't get them in as I couldn't see. Second, I took a magnifying mirror and being able to see made all the difference.
Like @dode, said, for the most part in Canada you really need goggles in the cold season. Whistler may be warm enough, but I don't really ski there
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You know it makes sense.
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I used https://www.prescriptioninserts.com/all-prescription-inserts they were cheap and posted me a set of different frames to try out in my goggles.
I had worn goggles over glasses before, in an effort to save a few quid, but suffered from lack of fit and misting when the going got tough.
Inserts are not the perfect solution and I still wear my prescription sunglasses when suitable, (even though it contravenes The Rules  )
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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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contacts. End of thread
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Scarlet wrote: |
| Mjit wrote: |
| Contacts are great...unless you have dry eyes. I've tried having a lens dry out while skiing and stick to the surface of me eyeball and, well let's say I don't recommend trying it! |
Ouch! Have you asked your optician recently about changing your contact lenses? The tech has improved and they are a lot better for dry eyes than just a few years ago. I have dry eyes and as a result most contact lenses are impossible for me to wear for more than an hour or two. My current ones I can wear all day and have had no issues skiing. |
Yea, I'm well beyond that on the dry eye front and at the being treated by a consultant to stop my eyes drying out and sticking to my own eyelids in my sleep stage. Woo-hoo, middle age rocks! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Lilledonmarco wrote: |
| contacts. End of thread |
Unless you have had surgery for torn and/or detached retinas, in which case they are not an option.
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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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@Lilledonmarco, wish I could, but alas I was checked only 6 weeks ago, not so much for skiing as can wear prescription sunnies and my Snowviz goggles, but for kitesurfing, and, it's a big NO for me as my eyes are too dry.
And only on Sunday last week I lost my prescription sunnies out at sea having wiped out, so that was a feckin expensive session!
If only I could wear contacts !
So not an end to the thread 
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| Prescription inserts for your goggles. |
That’s what I did in the end through Boots opticians. I think the inserts cost me around £65 about 5 years ago. Ended up getting new goggles from them too - just took my helmet along & told them the colour of goggles required & bought the best combination for fit & style.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Someone posted something on here recently about goggles with moulded custom prescritions. I think they were swiss. Seemed like a really good alternative
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Post above from Seahoob
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I used contact lenses for a long time and liked them. On the other hand, the best thing I ever did was getting my eyes lasered. That works for surfing too, although you need to be really careful with UV exposure if you do a lot. I use swimming goggles - not remotely fashionable, but I like to be able to see close up even after a lot of time on the water.
Quite a lot of my own snowboarding mates went the laser route and had similar results to me... which probably means that it's quite hard to make snow work well with glasses, which is presumably why the thread exists and did not end. I'm fairly sure our local optician shops have goggles in the window, although I've no idea which type work best etc. I'm a big fan of photochromic goggle lenses for snow though - maybe those would help as you don't have to change the lens when the light changes.
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