Best Goggles

niceoneted

I'm looking for recommendations for goggles. I have been skiing for a number of years and have just hated using them as they seem to fog up on me. I want to buy a new pair now so which ones should I buy. Female medium size head.

Don1

I bought my Oakley A-Frames this year and had no fog problems with them. Have yet to be in proper cold and/or snowy conditions (it was above freezing in Finland of all places..)yet though. €75 I paid for them and so far seem worht it.

robinph

Make sure that they have double lenses and that should help a lot with stopping them fogging up on you. Also if your just wearing a hat on your noggin, rather than a helmet, then don't leave them on your forehead when you stop as that will add to the problem as well due to condensation forming on them when you stop.

5h4mr0(k

A lot of motor shops sell an anti-fogging liquid for windscreens. It usually works well on the goggles as well. Put it on them in the morning before you head out from the digs and it should do you for the day i.e. you don't need to carry the bottle around with you.

zuroph

consider WHY they might be fogging up too. i hated wearing my goggle til this year, got used to them. if u use a neck gaitor or scarf, make sure that it is not redirecting ur breath UP towards the goggles, as the warm breath will get in throught the foam and vents and fog them up. if ur wearing a hat, make sure that the foam of the goggles is meeting ur forehead and not the hat, as heat trapped under the hat can vent in and fog them up. my goggles are a few year old and some of the light foam in the vents at the top has torn a bit, this seemed to make them even less likely to fog now. sometimes they will fog up a little while u are stopped, as soon as u get moving they will clear due to the breeze. placing them on ur hat while stopped allows them to fog up , but dont panic too much and give them a chance to clear.

foamcutter

As robinph said

Make sure that they have double lenses and that should help a lot with stopping them fogging up on you. Also if your just wearing a hat on your noggin, rather than a helmet, then don't leave them on your forehead when you stop as that will add to the problem as well due to condensation forming on them when you stop.

Smearing a little fairy liquid on the inside of the lens will help to prevent fogging or you could get a set of sunglasses with polarised lenses. I got a set of prescription glasses with polarised lenses this year and they worked well. Still used the googles over the normal glasses on overcast days.

Lucifer

dragon goggles..you might have to pay a bit for them but best goggles iv had, better the oakleys..

rudi1978

Oakleys! Paid a bit for mine but so worth it. Savage.

Neilthefunkee1

Lucifer wrote: »

dragon goggles..you might have to pay a bit for them but best goggles iv had, better the oakleys..

Not if you look in the right place!! got my Dragon DXS just before xmas.. 55 lids.. come on!!! Not a single fogging problem.. well except when your stopped and flip em up on your noodle...

If all you goggle shoppers are lookin for new ones and you wear a helmet chek this site out.. gives all helmet/goggle compatibility.. I sware my red trace was made for the Dragon DXS... not a crack of space between them!!
http://www.goneboarding.co.uk/Forum/Helmet-Goggle-Compatibility-The-Definitive-List/ThreadID/11788/Page/1/ShowThread.aspx

niceoneted

Thank you all so much for your helpful replies. I think that I just had such a bad experience the first year from not knowing how to use them properly that it put me off. Last year there were alot of snow showers while skiing and as good as my glasses are they didn't do the job - got into the habit of not bringing goggles.
Any is about 50 euro enough to be spending. I know you 'll all say it depends on what your buying.
After looking I'm thinking bolle are they any good??
don't want to buy oakleys or likewise in case I just don't want to use them in the end.

Lucifer

i had a pair of bolle first, but had to change, the vents werent good, fogged up all the time...even when the ski instructure wore them...he recommended dragon...best buy imo

cson

You'll prolly think I'm nuts but anyway... I used a pair of Jockey goggles (The ones McCoy, Ruby et al wear at Cheltenham and everywhere else) and they were fecking brill. No fogging, superb vision and they look pretty cool too.

I kinda chanced upon them too, I faceplanted my oakleys into 3 pieces on the second day...:(

5h4mr0(k

I used a pair of Jockey goggles (The ones McCoy, Ruby et al wear at Cheltenham and everywhere else) and they were fecking brill. No fogging, superb vision and they look pretty cool too.

I don't suppose they come in any different coloured filters? That makes a huge difference in flat light.

I faceplanted my oakleys into 3 pieces on the second day

One of the great things about goggles that they can take quite a bit of the impact during a hard face plant! They most likely won't get broken during it either. It'll be hours later before you find out that you still broke your Oakleys which were in your pocket during the hard face plant

cson

The ones I was wearing had an orange tint, but afaik you can get them in varying shades of strength - I'm nearly sure there was a black tint on one pair I saw. Makes sense too tbh, jockeys ride in every sort of weather imaginable.

I was wearing those oakleys at the time too, **** lucky they didn't go into my eye or anything. It *supposedly* a serious wipeout, I was a bit hazy after it and when I came too, there were 3 french boarders around me asking if I was "Ca va". I just started checking myself, tapping my legs, arms, everything. Couldn't believe I came out of it with nothing broken bar the oakleys.

They did cost €150 though

Don1

Did something similar. Spectacular wipeout, so I'm told, very high speed, multiple flips and a faceplant in the middle. Ended up sitting up facing down the hill in a clowd of powder. Dizzy as hell picked the hat and Oakleys up. No idea how they didn't break. Luck of the draw I suppose. Goggles from now on though unless it's super sunny.

ShayK1

5h4mr0(k wrote: »

It'll be hours later before you find out that you still broke your Oakleys which were in your pocket during the hard face plant

I did that... weren't even my glasses. I borrowed them from a friend

niceoneted

Just wondering where can you get those dragon goggles. I was in the Great Outdoors and 53 Degrees North and no luck.
Thanks again for all your suggestions and advice. I'm off to Tignes on Sat.

Neilthefunkee1

Dont think anyone stocks Dragon goggles over here.. I got mine off the Bay of E!! Shipped in from Isreal, didnt think they get too much snow over there!! ha ha!!