 Poster: A snowHead
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I’m going out next week again and my trip in January hadflat light everyday I find my smith storm yellow don’t work well enough so I’m looking at adding a storm rose lens or trying a set of oakleys with the hi pink has anyone use these ?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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should be ok, its a cat 1 lense.
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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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Love my Oakley Hi Pinks, I swap them with Rose depending what the sky looks like when I look out of the bedroom window in the morning. Oakley Prism looked like a step change when I got them a few years back, don't know if anyone is doing anything better now.
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I'm afraid there is no magic bullet for flat light...there is just marginally better. Some people prefer yellow/orange, while others prefer pink/rose. Skiing in flat light is 70% technique (and confidence/experience) imo.
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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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@jimdonut, I have both the yellow and rose smith lenses and I find the yellow one is better for me in low light.
I don't know if an individual's eyes vary so as one of the tints is more suitable.
The yellow has a higher VLT value than the rose I think.
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Yellow all the way for really flat.
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Love my Oakley Prizms Hi-Pink. Excellent in flat light.
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Just got my goggles out and i remembered wrongly , ive got the storm rose lens which i wasn't that happy with so im going to try out the yellow!
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| Old Fartbag wrote: |
| I'm afraid there is no magic bullet for flat light...there is just marginally better. Some people prefer yellow/orange, while others prefer pink/rose. Skiing in flat light is 70% technique (and confidence/experience) imo. |
plus finding tree lined slopes 
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For proper cloudy flat light, a clear lens does the trick, the problem comes when you get a slight bit of brightness and your pupils scream at you.
I recently got some new Smith I/o goggles and whatever the low light lens is with those us very good, but as above the definition thing if different colours is mostly subjective. Personally I like to get something with as good VLT as possible for my low light option
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Surprised the Smith storm yellow doesn't work. I ski Smith storm rose most days ( shady North facing slopes and cloud cover) but recently I've been reverting to cheapy Decathlon hi yellow on really foul viz days.
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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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yes i forgot what i had ive got the storm Rose which works well but not well enough , im going to try the yellow
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Just bought Oakley Prizm Snow Clears, had them out today for the first time in flat light (whiteout at the top) and loved them! Even though it says ‘clear’ in the model name they’re not totally clear, they have a slight pink/lilac hue to them that adds contrast & depth to the snow. They let 64 % of light through. The Hi-Pinks let about 45 %.
Tried them head to head with Pinks yesterday outside a shop at the resort in similar conditions and just thought the Snow Clears were a better flat light lens - but then again I already have a pair of Smith Chromapops that are a tad darker than Oakley’s Pinks so the Pinks would be a bit redundant in my use case.
If you have the possibility to try out Pinks and Clears in flat light, just give them a go! Really can’t go wrong either way, unless you have to make do with one pair of goggles for several days in which case I recommend the Hi-Pinks.
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You know it makes sense.
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@Dave of the Marmottes, storm yellow is pretty good with smith io. I used the everyday green ones on all but completely overcast/ whiteout. Tbh googles can only do so much, they can't magically create more sunlight and shadows out of thin air!
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