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Goggles or Sunglasses

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Vinnie_B
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Would you rather wear goggles or sunglasses while skiing?
Apr 23 2013 8:09PM
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Stpat98
Posts: 102 - Karma: 215
I wear goggles if its raining or snowing, but the look of sunglasses is cooler in my opinion.
Apr 23 2013 8:11PM
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flowstradamus
Posts: 57 - Karma: 29
Sunglasses all the way on warmer days.  But i often have both on so if i wear shades with my goggles pushed up, people just call me a tool
Apr 23 2013 8:11PM
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BigScaryLarry
Posts: 1448 - Karma: 2,732
newb thread
but glasses on warm days

Apr 23 2013 8:22PM
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BMillerrr
Posts: 191 - Karma: 300
Sunglasses forsure on Bluebird days or warm days, other than that goggles. Goggles for snowing/snowmaking and raining but not very often do I wear goggles. Back half of season though is when the shades come out though
Apr 23 2013 8:34PM
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jca
Posts: 4171 - Karma: 6,311
i dont know how people can handle skiing with shades when your doing anything other than hitting rails. so much wind in your eyes when youre nuking into a jump or just bombing in general.
Apr 23 2013 8:38PM
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bieberhole69.
Posts: 654 - Karma: 1,387
Yeah same here, I always use goggles. Cant stand the wind, so I just swap out the lenses
Apr 23 2013 8:50PM
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Black.Bird
Posts: 2566 - Karma: 684
You can actually get used to it.

For me it's nothing at night, goggles when it's cold/or snowing, glasses when it's warmer.
Apr 23 2013 8:53PM
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NMMedia
Posts: 982 - Karma: 1,700
Goggles, tried sunglasses but my contacts kept getting messed up
Apr 24 2013 8:48PM
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profa_212
Posts: 8849 - Karma: 35,309
Going switch killed the whole glasses deal for me.
Apr 24 2013 9:57PM
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WillyTheKid
Posts: 106 - Karma: 639
100% truth. Damn eyes...
Apr 24 2013 10:00PM
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stupendous-man
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I dont see how that would affect your contacts haha, its fine with mine. And I have no problem with wind in my eyes for some reason.

I wear my sunnies if its 40+ degrees out, i have joysticks so everyone thinks im rob heule. pretty tight
Apr 24 2013 10:14PM
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Barmski
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Pit Vipers: the only one you need.
Apr 24 2013 10:18PM
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razors-chaz
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 1,250
I wish i could wear glasses on the sunnier days but im pretty blind and need special expensive contacts which like to come out at a moments notice so its not really an option for me. :( goggles4lyf(or until i get a corneal transplant)
Apr 25 2013 7:05AM
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ScottyN
Posts: 376 - Karma: 455
goggles all day everyday. no doubt
Apr 25 2013 7:34AM
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first_rodeo
Posts: 2385 - Karma: 7,781

i can fall in the park with glasses

but if you hit a tree or pillow weird they will shoot off and get lost

Apr 25 2013 10:38AM
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Easy-E
Posts: 751 - Karma: 1,686
i prefer goggles when its colder out, they hold up my face mask, but sunglasses are better in the warmer weather
Apr 25 2013 10:51AM
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coolflash8
Posts: 3171 - Karma: 2,048
neither
Apr 25 2013 10:55AM
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lamppost
Posts: 277 - Karma: 201

during early/late season, i go with Glacier Glasses (its pretty much the best of both worlds) just because my face sweats with all the foam from the goggles. but in the winter its pretty much goggles everyday.

If anyone wants to know, Airblaster makes some darn good glacier glasses

Apr 25 2013 11:19AM
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RimJobber
Posts: 3313 - Karma: 10,058
Ski glasses.
I have some old bolle mirrored ones my dad gave me. Straight from the 80's
Apr 25 2013 11:21AM
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stoned_sorcerer
Posts: 659 - Karma: 72
I rarely wear either of them. I just cant stand goggles, let alone sunglasses (i've tried so many different ones but the fov is still too damn narrow and anything but clear lenses are annoying + every goggle that seems okay is way too expensive) so i only wear goggles when it snows so much i cant see anything. Otherwise, i've gotten pretty used to the wind, cold, sun and so on. I haven't seen any effect on my eyesight yet but im sure it can't be good.
Apr 25 2013 11:44AM
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Pikachu.
Posts: 1290 - Karma: 1,641
haha yea your gunna have very sunburned eyes
Apr 25 2013 12:06PM
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DanielPlainview
Posts: 391 - Karma: 1,707
sunglasses whenever possible. unfortunately being from Maine makes it almost impossible to find an opportunity until the end of the season
Apr 25 2013 1:29PM
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Tikayt
Posts: 1031 - Karma: 1,543
Sunglasses FTW for spring skiing !
Apr 25 2013 1:35PM
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keatdogg
Posts: 95 - Karma: 110
Prescription sunglasses are a total game changer. $$$$, but totally worth it if you can afford it.
Apr 25 2013 2:25PM
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life_is_hood
Posts: 502 - Karma: 1,972
Goggles all day erryday. unless its really warm spring out
Apr 25 2013 4:36PM
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Nacho+
Posts: 3748 - Karma: 7,791
i wear sunglasses unless its in the teens or lower. Even if its snowing, they r much more comfortable
Apr 25 2013 5:06PM
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hippy.
Posts: 3106 - Karma: 14,364
goggles er day! but when it is like 60 out glasses fo sho
Apr 25 2013 5:09PM
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jermhy
Posts: 119 - Karma: 619
I only wear goggles when it's snowing. I'm more comfortable doing tricks without goggles or anything because that way I have full peripheral vision.
Apr 25 2013 5:35PM
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AnthonyWalsh
Posts: 1571 - Karma: 1,302
it doesnt matter what the weather is, i never wear goggles or sun glasses
Apr 25 2013 5:42PM
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Alyon
Posts: 161 - Karma: 166
Sunglasses for sure
Apr 25 2013 5:46PM
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Troy.
Posts: 5070 - Karma: 12,545
The kids that rock no eye protection at all are straight dumb. I can't fathom it
Apr 25 2013 5:59PM
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MEDSKI.
Posts: 561 - Karma: 640
Gogs unless its really warm or just hitting rails
Apr 26 2013 8:55PM
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Boooshank
Posts: 1650 - Karma: 160
Goggles every day.

I need my eyes.
Apr 26 2013 11:03PM
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270on420out
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Goggles 24/7. Tried glasses once. Felt cool but I gave my self a black eye overshooting a small jump.
Apr 26 2013 11:08PM
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Steve_Glandsberg
Posts: 137 - Karma: 4,833
usually go with goggles
Apr 26 2013 11:42PM
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theabortionator
Posts: 51514 - Karma: 160,924
I need to drill sunglasses out and put the sweet rope on them so that when I flip they don't fly off. Other than that goggles all year sunglasses for dat spring sun

YOLOSWAG
Apr 26 2013 11:46PM
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250r
Posts: 2276 - Karma: 1,013
even if im just hitting rails in the baking hot sun on the glacier during the summer, i still prefer wearing goggles. and that would be about the one and only time that i ever would ski with sun glasses, i couldnt ever actually go skiing with them or hit jumps with flurries of snow in the air like some people do.
Apr 27 2013 2:46AM
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PON3
Posts: 3817 - Karma: 783
How else are you supposed to get that sweet goggle tan?


pussies
Apr 27 2013 5:51AM
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milk_man
Posts: 5252 - Karma: 5,977
I feel like sunglasses would fly off during every crash
Apr 27 2013 11:13AM
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theabortionator
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lol nice sig
Apr 27 2013 11:26AM
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Algebra
Posts: 5215 - Karma: 1,677
I hate the feeling of goggles. So whenever possible no goggles or sunglasses. So I only wear goggles when it's snowing
Apr 27 2013 11:28AM
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theabortionator
Posts: 51514 - Karma: 160,924
For me I either have to rock them always or never. There was one season where I had them up a bunch working and I just couldn't ride with them down, it fucked with my vision. Once I rode a bunch with them up that was it.


Rocked them this season though.
Apr 27 2013 11:33AM
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Peter.
Posts: 23796 - Karma: 13,014
i feel weird riding without goggles on
Apr 27 2013 12:12PM
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bgeskior
Posts: 463 - Karma: 1,552
I wore sunglasses all preseason and could not switch back to goggles. too many blind spots
Apr 27 2013 12:42PM
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dani_
Posts: 72 - Karma: 146
goggles

Apr 27 2013 9:18PM
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theabortionator
Posts: 51514 - Karma: 160,924
I wore my sunglasses today, so I could, so I could shred
Apr 27 2013 9:21PM
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ForeverYung
Posts: 8385 - Karma: 2,060
Sometimes I like not using sunglasses or goggles
Apr 27 2013 9:23PM
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KillaSteeze
Posts: 3329 - Karma: 351
I've never skied with sunglasses before, how much more vision do you get from them? Like I'd imagine you wouldn't get blind spots like you do from goggles.
Apr 28 2013 4:14AM
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louie.mirags
Posts: 6015 - Karma: 5,029
from the wind it would mess up the contacts.. i could not bomb with my Oakley aviator's, way too much wind
Apr 28 2013 4:41AM
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