Ski Goggles

 Most of the eye injuries that occur from skiing or snowboarding happen because of a bad choice in eyewear, or no eyewear at all. If you take a serious fall with improper eyewear on, the lens can shatter and the pieces can cut your eye. If you aren't wearing eyewear, a low branch can seriously injure you eye. The right kind of lens can also help you see better on the snow. Light reflects of the snow, creating enormous glare. Proper eyewear can both protect your eyes, and absorb the glare helping you see better altogether.

• UV Protection:  Ultraviolet light has been proven to cause a variety of eye disease as well as pre-mature aging.  UV concentrations increase as altitude increase.  Therefore, UV protection is a must. ( For more information, see UV and its Effects on the Eyes).

• Polycarbonate Lenses: This is the only type of lens that should be worn. Both glass and plastic lenses can shatter upon impact, and lens particles can penetrate the eye. Polycarbonate lenses are the most impact resistance, and will not shatter upon impact. Polycarbonate also is more resistant to fogging than any other lens. Plastic provide adequate protection, but still can shatter. Avoid glass lenses if at all possible.

• Frame Material & Style: Choose a plastic frame or ski goggle. Plastic frames fare better in the cold. Metal frames become brittle in the cold and may snap. Also, upon a fall, the nosepads on a metal frame can poke an eye. For frame style, wraps are very popular, as they wrap around your eye to keep out wind and snow (especially important for contact lens wearers). They also help block out incidental light from the sides, helping to minimize glare.

• Polarized Lenses: Glare manifest itself in what is called polarized light. Glare is most noticeable on high reflective surfaces such as water and snow. Regular sun lenses do not provide adequate absorption of glare. Polarized lenses absorb 98% of the glare reflected off the snow. Note: Polarized lenses absorb so much glare that you may not be able to distinguish patches of ice from regular snow. 

• Lens Color: When skiing in bright sunlight, you will choose to wear a sun lens. Choose a lens that is brown or amber in color as this will provide the best contrast against a white background, and is better for lower light conditions (i.e. when the sun goes behind the clouds). A photochromatic lens may also be useful. Photochromatic lenses change color with changes of light. Therefore, they will get darker in bright sunlight, and become lighter in an overcast sky.

• Goggles: You may choose to wear a goggle when skiing in sunlight or, to where while it is snowing, you may choose to use a goggle. Use the same lens color guidelines as above. Make sure the goggle is well ventilated. If you wear contact lenses, you need to make sure that your goggle is well ventilated so your contacts do not dry up. Remember to blink a lot, as well, to help keep your contacts moist.

• Prescription Lenses: Prescription lenses can be fit in most sunglasses, including wrap styles. However, if you have a high prescription, it is better to stay away from wrapped frames, as the vision will be distorted on the periphery. For goggle wearers, an insert can be made up with a prescription to fit behind a goggle lens. There are also goggles that are made to fit over your glasses, however, this is often uncomfortable, and glasses tend to fog easier.

Recommended Style:  For goggles, Barz Cross Sport Goggles, Bolle Ski Goggles, Bugz Snowboard Goggles , and Smith Ski Goggles , Peppers Googs, Hilco Prescription Ski Goggles, Rudy Project Ski Goggles and Zeal Polarized Ski Goggles and meet all of the above requirements and all these brands have some styles are available with a prescription.  For sunglasses Native  are  all Polycarbonate polarized. Anarchy makes nice wrap styles with a polycarbonat that have glass lenses including some polarized styles are: Serengeti, and Smith, although Smith does have some polarized polycarbonate and plastic lenses which are much safer than glass. e lens and some styles are polarized. Bolle also makes some polarized styles and polycarbonate lenses. Rudy Project makes polycarbonate lenses and some styles are available polarized.     Peppers also makes all  polarized polycarbonate styles.  Other favorites of skiers and snowboarders

Shop all Ski Goggles Now!