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Winter Safety. Downhill skiing and snowboarding Page Content. Plan to go with someone—never ski or snowboard alone. Take ski or snowboarding lessons with a certified instructor. Get tips on good technique and the best ways to fall. And children who are older than 7 years old should use short boards that are no more than chest high. While you're skiing and snowboarding: Read and follow all posted signs and warnings. Match your speed to the snow conditions, traffic on the hill, and the skill of the people around you.
Amber and rose-colored lenses are ideal for hazy or cloudy days, while brown lenses add more contrast in dimly-lit weather conditions and reduce light in sunny weather. Goggles are an essential part of skiing or snowboarding gear to protect your eyes from the elements and injury. These sports expose your eyes to prolonged periods of harsh wind and bright sunlight. Unlike sunglasses, goggles seal your eyes from the cold air, and many goggles come with lenses that block UV light.
Goggles protect your eyes from airborne snow and debris and shield them from hazards such as tree limbs and fallen branches. When skiing or snowboarding, there are two main things that can be a problem if you are wearing glasses. The first is fogging. Your dearn breath is going to fog up the goggles, or the glasses underneath, or both — especially if you are attempting to cover your nose or mouth due to cold.
The change in temperatures can make it even more of an issue — going in an out of a gondola, a restroom, or a ski lodge. The second is fitting the glasses comfortably under your goggles. Most standard goggles do not fit well with glasses. According to one skier we interviewed for this article, the two main pain points are pinching around the bridge of the nose, or the tendency for goggles to try to push your glasses upward toward the forehead.
The wrong goggles can also bend the frame of your glasses in some cases. Happily, you can solve this with a pair of ski goggles that are designed to fit over glasses, and good goggles will help with fogging as well. One obvious solution is to use contacts while you are skiing, instead of glasses. Many people, however, just do not like or are unable to wear contacts at all and need their glasses to be confident when on the move.
Furthermore, skiers we have interviewed suggest that the dry-eye that often accompanies contact lenses is made worse while skiing, because the mountain air if often dryer, and you are obviously skiing in cold temps which can also have a drying effect.
Before looking for suitable goggles, you need to make sure you have suitable glasses. That is, glasses that are secure when you do physical exercise and a lot of movement. If your glasses fall down your nose or move around when you turn around too quick, they are probably going to do the same on the slopes.
That would not be very good for your comfort or your safety. Good fitting glasses should be the starting point for your ski preparations. With that sorted, it is on to the goggles. There are usually three realistic options here: 1 goggles designed to fit over your glasses, 2 contact lenses, or 3 prescription lens inserts for your goggles. Prescription goggles are both expensive and difficult to find, but exist.
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