Looks good. I buy all my other tuning gear from http://www.sidecut.com/. We had Chris come out this year to our club and give a tuning clinic. His tools are awesome and his videos show you how to quickly tune your skis perfectly.
Castle still hanging in there, need to get over the next week and then it looks colder with lots of snow in the forecast. Pretty fun spring skiing there right now, you can hail ass down the chutes.
Castle is the best in the West right now. They've actually had quite a bit of snow this season, relatively cool temperatures so little melting, and get snow regularly. Love that hill.
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for those of you that ski at sunshine a lot - what type of goggles do you wear there? every time i try and ski down from continental dvide i feel like i can not seperate the sky from the snow and for me it becomes and excercise in frustration coming down.......
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for those of you that ski at sunshine a lot - what type of goggles do you wear there? every time i try and ski down from continental dvide i feel like i can not seperate the sky from the snow and for me it becomes and excercise in frustration coming down.......
Blackout lenses all day. I mean unless there is a full blown white out I don't change my lens and I feel like once there is a white out, you're screwed regardless anyways.
I've been lucky this year and have had pretty much bluebird every day but yeah, I stay off Continental when there's a white out day.
Yeah Polak's idea is absolutely nuts. You almost never use blackout lenses.
If you're wearing Oakleys, you should be using hi intensity yellow, if you're wearing Smiths, you should be using blue sensor mirror. I don't know what the equivalents are from other companies, but those are the two best flat light lenses available.
Only when it's more sun than cloud out should you need to switch from those lenses.
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I've changed my blackout lens twice in two and a half seasons.
I don't know, I feel like my visibility is always crap if it's a bad day, regardless of whether I'm wearing my black out lens or the low light lens that comes with all the IO/X's. The two times I changed it was when it was true genuine white out (heavy snow and cloudy) and you still can't see #### all. It's just brighter than the black out.
Maybe it's cause I've always had crap hand me down goggles up until I got my latest ones and I'm used to being stuck with one lens for every type of weather?
Oh and I should add that I'm not suggesting my way is right lol. It's just the answer to his question.
All I/OX's don't come with the same low light lens at all. For example, if you buy "Vagabond" colourway I/OX's with Green SolX mirror, you get red sensor mirrors as your second lens. If you buy Black I/OX's with the blackout lens, you get yellow sensor mirrors with them. If you buy Shattered I/OX with Ignitor Mirrors, you get blue sensor mirrors with them. It varies.
Basically, if you're using Smiths and you can have two lenses, you want either green solX mirror or red solX mirror for brighter days, and blue sensor mirror for overcast.
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Yeah, less VLT, but you never need VLT that low, and the contrast definition you get isn't as good. As with everything there's a major element of personal preference, but for actual visual quality in a broad array of light conditions, the ones I mentioned are objectively the best lenses they make.
I myself have oakleys with Black Iridium and Hi-Yellow, as well as Smith I/OXs with Blackout, Red Photochrom, Green Sol-X and Blue Sensor Mirror, as well as some Anon Figments and Spy Soldiers with various lenses that were freebies. I used to get a bunch of free goggles, I've gone through a lot of lenses. Now I mostly just use the I/OX, although I've been asking for a set of M2s.
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Oh I'm not going to try and hide the fact that the main reason I went with a Smith set with a blackout lens is for looks.
And yeah my IO/X's came with the red sensor. That's what I meant.
When I bought the first pair I won't lie I bought it for looks. But then I hit myself in the face with my ski once and put a huge scratch on the black lens and I had to get another cause I loved it haha.
