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How many pairs of goggles & shade do you have?

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I was just wondering as different tints are recommended for different conditions.

I have one pair of goggles : Bolle with Vermillion lens and one pair of shades : Ryders with grey, amber and clear lenses.
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I have a bright pair and a spare get-me-home in anything pair. I do the same for glasses
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I've got some Adidas glasses with amber, dark and darkest lenses - I'm not as blind as a bat, but I do wear glasses. The Adidas glasses are great because you can buy a prescription lens insert which clips in on the inside of the frame.

I've got one pair of gogles - Cebe, but they spend most of their time in my back pack.
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Je suis trois pairs of wisdoms. Fire Iridium, persimmon, and blue iridium.

I found the Blue Iridium to be an extremely useful addition on those days when it may get sunny or might get cloudy.
I was caught out a few times last season, having worn the fires at the start of a sunny december day and come four o'clock the cloud and light drawing in being able to see not a single contour, which was pretty annoying.
Likewise having gone out in the persimmons and it getting sunny being blinded was equally annoying, so I purchased the blue iridiums they were fantastic.
If I were asked to reccomend I would go with the Blue Iridium or VR28 lens for all conditions.
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2 pairs of goggles/3 lenses.
loads of shades, but i never wear them skiing.
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Wear The Fox Hat wrote:
2 pairs of goggles/3 lenses.
loads of shades, but i never wear them skiing.

We won't ask what you wear them for Laughing

One pair. Pinky orange lenses. I tried posh ones (Oakleys) and they scratched something rotten - something to do with me face planting so often. I now have an el cheapo pair of Scotts. I hardly ever ski without wearing them.
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SammyQ wrote:
Je suis trois pairs of wisdoms. Fire Iridium, persimmon, and blue iridium.

I found the Blue Iridium to be an extremely useful addition on those days when it may get sunny or might get cloudy.
I was caught out a few times last season, having worn the fires at the start of a sunny december day and come four o'clock the cloud and light drawing in being able to see not a single contour, which was pretty annoying.
Likewise having gone out in the persimmons and it getting sunny being blinded was equally annoying, so I purchased the blue iridiums they were fantastic.
If I were asked to reccomend I would go with the Blue Iridium or VR28 lens for all conditions.


I'm glad you said that, I bought Blue Iridium based on the same thoughts, I've not had a chance to try them yet but I'm hoping to give them a proper try next week in LDA.
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Sunglasses wise, I have a pair of Oakley Minutes - Silver with er... the dark lens Smile Generally I use them for sunny days. Goggles wise, I've got a pair of Oakley A Frames, with Persimmon lens; however after getting a helmet last season, I find my self using my goggles more and more, since sun glasses don't seem to a) work that well with a helmet and b) don't look that good either!

However, just wondering are the Persimmon colour lens I have now good for all condictions? Read from various places that Persimmon seems to be an all rounder.... I maybe completely round on this one! Also I think I saw somewhere where you can buy larger straps for the A Frame, so they fit better round helmets, anyone got any ideas where I can get them? Failing that, I might even have to justify buying another pair! Very Happy
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What is the best lens to get for mixed conditions? I am looking at the Oakley Wisdoms.

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NeilInSpain wrote:
I've got some Adidas glasses with amber, dark and darkest lenses - I'm not as blind as a bat, but I do wear glasses. The Adidas glasses are great because you can buy a prescription lens insert which clips in on the inside of the frame.

I've got one pair of gogles - Cebe, but they spend most of their time in my back pack.


Those Adidas sunglasses and goggles with the optical inserts look great. I wear contact lenses normally, but my eyes get dry and tired quickly. Plus my vision with contacts is not as good as with glasses. I like the idea of having those because I can wear them on the mountain and choose if I want contacts or the optical insert. Plus I don't always want to wear goggles on the warmer days.

Anyone had any experience of the Adidas sunglasses with the interchangable arms / straps ? The straps look like they might be better for ski usage.
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Tomsk, once one sorts out ones glasses vs. goggles orientation...

I have one pair of goggles, Uvex with a yellow-orange tint. Generally used only for bad weather, deep powder or if it's really cold.

One pair of glasses but they're Smith Sliders with interchangeable lenses. Bronze for sunny days, orange for bad light and yellow for fog. They're great, but I'm on my 3rd pair...
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I have 2 pairs of goggles, I for bad light and 1 for bright days that are too cold for glasses. 1 pair of dark glasses and 1 pair of green lensed glasses, useful in bad light but good weather. None of them are posh or expensive makes!
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I have a pair of the Adidas Elevation glasses with the strap - when used a glasses they are great, and the LST lenses are great (high protection without loss of definition.

That said the strap is rubbish, as soon as you put them on they steam up. So now I have goggles too
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Greig, I bought a pair of wisdoms last season with fire iridium lenses and i've not had any trouble with them - and ive tried them in all conditions. Although previous to owning those goggles I always skiied in polarised sunglasses which is about hte worst thing in flat light and heavy snowfall wink ! Sooo if SammyQ is recommending the blue iridiums (having tested the fire iridiums as well) they might be worth checking out.

Also not sure how easy it is to change the lenses on the wisdom but that is certainly a lower-cost option (we're still talking oakley prices here) than owning two pairs of googles...
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I don't think Wisdoms are supposed to be interchangeable lenses, more like replaceable lenses.
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Lockwoods are selling Bloc shades at £9.99 a pair. Daughters not only came home with a pair of boots each but bootbag, shades, fleece. They felt that me going with them would have been even more expensive (skis?!)
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FenlandSkier wrote:
I don't think Wisdoms are supposed to be interchangeable lenses, more like replaceable lenses.


Also the lens is the majority of the cost so you might as well just buy another whole pair of goggles and save yourself the bother of trying to swap lenses.
If I had to pick one Oakley lens colour I'd go for HI Persimmon (I now have 3! HI Yellow/Blue, HI Persimmon, and Pink Iridium)
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stuarth wrote:
FenlandSkier wrote:
I don't think Wisdoms are supposed to be interchangeable lenses, more like replaceable lenses.


Also the lens is the majority of the cost so you might as well just buy another whole pair of goggles and save yourself the bother of trying to swap lenses.
If I had to pick one Oakley lens colour I'd go for HI Persimmon (I now have 3! HI Yellow/Blue, HI Persimmon, and Pink Iridium)


Don't suppose you have a picture with the HI Persimmon lenses? I really like the Fire Iridium but don't want them to be too dark when its cloudy.

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I don't think I've got one handy, I'll see what I can dig out. The picture on the oakley site doesn't look quite right - they have more of a blue tinge on the lens, the picture looks just like the plain persimmon one. I find Fire iridium too dark - even on sunny days there are always shaded bits where dark lenses mean you can't see the terrain.
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Two pairs of wisdom goggles (Hi-Blue & Black irrid) one pair of sunnies.
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I just have one pair of goggles (Adidas - chosen because I like the colour, but more importantly, they go over my spectacles). They are gunmetal colour with amber mirror lenses, and an optical insert. However the latter isn't varifocal, and I may have problems with it because I won't be able to read the instructions on the lift gates, or see properly to put my hands in my pole loops.

I have one pair of prescription sports sunglasses which are photochromic with high levels of UV protection. I got them from Optilabs, and they are brilliant. They were the only place that would make me sports glasses with varifocal and photochromic lenses. They also look like normal shades and are quite stylish.
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Bolle photocromic goggles, one pair of shades. (but three 'old' pairs of goggles that i can lend to friends/family/offspring, or keep as spares) Very Happy
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Jarvski, My adidas glasses don't have straps, but the arms have a high friction rubberised strip on the inside, and grip quite tightly - they've never come off even when I've fallen at high speed.

I bought the Adidas glasses on the advice of my optician. I had originally intended to buy some Oakleys with original Oakley prescription lenses. But this would have been hideously expensive - the reason I was considering the Oakleys is because I wanted the high UV protection you get with the specialist sunglasses lenses coupled with a wrap-around style lens - it doesn't seem to be possible to get wrap-around presription lenses 'off the shelf'.

One thing I found with the glasses was that, at first, the clip on prescription lenses felt really strange, but I realised in the end that this strange feeling had more to do with the very dark lens that I'd put in - once I swapped to the dark lenses the funny feeling went away. You can choose from a whole range of shades of lens when you buy the glasses - I'd be suprised if you can't get the 'blue iridium' mentioned above.

The only negative with these glasses is cleaning - which I usually deal with when stopping at lunch time and then again in the evening. It takes about 5 minutes to clean the prescription lenses and the sunglasses lenses.

Trust this helps.
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3 pairs of goggles, 1 pair prescription sunglasses, 2 pairs non-prescription (one with interchangable lenses).

Jarvski, my contacts are a different prescription (stronger) than my glasses because I have them specifically for skiing.
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Oakley sunnies that I wear all year round, and carry with me when skiing for stops but don't wear to actually ski (my eyes water as soon as I pick up any speed)
A pair of Carrera goggles with Hyperred lenses which cover everything from very bright down to cloudy but not goodin flat light
A pair of Oakley Crowbars with Pink iridium lenses which are great in poor conditions (as far as anything is great in poor conditions) up to mild sunlight
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previously been a fan of Carreras but this year bought some Oakley Crowbars which are just great Madeye-Smiley
Don't wear sunnies when skiing.
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For an in-depth look at oakley's tints and their performance characteristics there is a full list available at http://oakley.com/technology/lens_tints - which may be either helpful or hopelessly baffling. Interestingly on their light index scale the HI Yellow lenses are rated as indoor?!?! Not very helpful for skiing I would guess... wink .
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