SKI GOGGLES

Ski Goggles

Ski goggles are an important piece of kit. They protect your eyes from the elements, such as snow, wind, and harmful UV rays, while improving your vision so that you get to see the mountain as well as possible. The functions and features that goggles can have are often overlooked, with a lot of people just buying the cheapest pair they can find. Yet the difference between a cheap pair of goggles and a good pair, can be vast, and can make a huge difference to how well they work, and how comfortable they are.

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The are two different basic shapes that goggles lenses can have. Flat lenses are flat vertically with a curve sideways across the goggles. Flat lenses are the cheaper type of lens, and are good for people on a budget. Spherical lenses are curve in all directions, and are shaped as if they were cut from part of a sphere. Spherical lens are more expensive, but offer better peripheral vision, and have less optical distortion.

Many goggles have reflective coating on the outside of the lens that creates a mirrored effect. This type of lens is generally good for sunny weather as the reflective layer reduces glare from the snow. The colour of this mirror effect is not necessarily the colour of the lens tint though, as the coating applied on the outside of the lens works differently to the colour of the material that the lens is made from.

Product Features

UV Protection

Virtually all ski goggle lenses these days protect you 100% from UV light, making sure harmful UVA, UVB, and UVC rays cannot get to your eyes.

Field Of View

This is how much the goggles restrict your vision, especially around the outside where the frame of the goggles is. With a good pair of goggles you will be able to see almost as much while wearing them as you can without them on. Having a good field of view will help a lot with your awareness and make you feel more comfortable on the slopes.

Anti-fog Coating

This is a coating on the inside of the goggle lens, that stops them from fogging up so easily. This does not mean that they will never fog up, it just means that they will be more resistant to it. You should try to avoid cleaning the inside of your goggles, as this will start to take the coating away. If you need to clean the inside of the goggles, it is best to dab them with a lint free cloth, and not to wipe them.

Scratch Resistant Coating

The polycarbonate or Trivex plastic that lenses are made from is very good at absorbing impacts, but the properties that let them do this also mean that they are more easily scratched. Therefore most lenses have a scratch resistance coating added to them to make the lenses harder to scratch.