Ski goggles.

In the mountains, protecting your eyes is essential. In fine weather, strong sunlight can cause serious eye problems and damage to the eyes. On the contrary, when it snows or rains, it is necessary to protect your eyes from flakes and rain. To improve visibility in fog, the ski goggle will be your best ally.

Speck-sports has selected for you the best brands of ski goggles: Oakley, Smith, Julbo, Cébé, Bollé, Poc, Scott, Uvex, Loubsol, Head, Rossignol, Cairn. With all this choice, you are sure to get a cheap ski goggle. 

How to choose your ski goggle or snow goggle?

First check that your goggle complies with the European standard EN 174 for eye protection for sliding sports. The ski goggle must filter 100% of the UV rays.

To fight against fogging, it is best to have a dual screen goggle. Very often the fog goggles have a pink screen. Brands such as Oakley with Prizm or Scott with Amplifier offer displays that greatly improve contrast when there is a white day. For the sun, use a yellow or brown screen.

The screen categories of the ski goggles:

There are 5 screen categories rated from 0 to 4:

Category 0: Non-tinted glasses/screens (absorb less than 20% of visible light). Mainly used for night skiing

Category 1: clear glasses/screens (absorb between 20 and 57% of visible light). Use in foggy or overcast conditions.

Category 2: intermediate tint lenses/screen (absorb between 57 and 82% of visible light). Quite versatile in cloudy weather but unpleasant in the sun, especially above 2000 m altitude.

Category 3: dark glasses/dark screens (absorb between 82 and 92% of visible light). This is the most common category on ski goggles and goggles, which provides sufficient protection from the sun for "normal" skiing.

Category 4: (absorbs more than 92% of visible light). Generally concerns so-called "glacier" glasses, for skiing at high altitude. Quite rare on goggles. Be careful, it is forbidden to drive with it, because its glasses are too dark.

Brands are now marketing photochromic goggles: the screen will brighten or darken depending on the brightness.

Some goggles are delivered with several interchangeable screens to adapt the view to the day's conditions.

For your comfort, remember to take a ski goggle adapted to the shape of your face. The foam density is also important enough for wearing the snow goggle all day long