Snowsports Goggle Guide

If there's a skier or snowboarder on your to-buy-for list this holiday, the following will make your life a whole lot easier. In the last decade, snow sports styles have grown exponentially, with established sports brands expanding their product selection to include a variety of goggles. Adidas is the newest comer to this group, having recently released three types of quickly popular snow goggles.

When you're shopping for snow goggles, there are a few key features you have to keep in mind. First, you must shop by size . Shoppers looking for a medium to large pair of goggles should take a look at the Oakley Wisdom and Oakley Crowbar. Also great fits are the Adidas Burna and the Bolle Scream. Women and people with smaller faces will be pleased with the Oakley A-Frame, the Adidas Yodai and the Bolle Jinx. Bolle's kid's goggles – most notably the Bolle Boost – are hits because of their great fit on junior skiers.

Once you've figured out the size, you can narrow down your goggle selection by helmet-compatibility . With slope safety being ever so important, most of the new goggles today are helmet compatible which means that their straps are designed to fit comfortably over a ski helmet. All of the features goggles in the above size comparison paragraph are helmet-compatible.

Once you've found a few pairs of goggles that correctly fit your face and helmet, you can then sort through those by the outdoor conditions in which you'll be skiing or snowboarding. Each of our goggles is available in a variety of lens colors ranging from high intensity lenses which are best for night skiing to those with the darkest contrast, black iridium. And don't worry if you require lenses to fit both bright and dark conditions – we've got those as well. Each of the Oakley and Adidas goggles we've mentioned here comes with replacement lens option, so you can be sure to protect your eyes on the brightest and darkest conditions, and in between as well.

More and more snowboarders and skiers nowadays are turning to polarized lenses . Polarization helps significantly reduce glare, which is very useful on bright days when the sun's rays strongly reflect off the snow. Perhaps more importantly, ice patches are sometimes hard to discern on the slopes, and polarization plays the important role of making them easier to see and avoid. Not too many goggles have polarized lenses yet – the Oakley A-Frame and Oakley Crowbar come in polarized varieties but that's about all so far.

Hopefully this has helped clarify your goggle decision, or at the very least has pointed you in the right direction. If you have any questions at all about choosing the right pair of goggles, our sales representatives at 1-877-RING HDO would be delighted to help you in your decision.