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Zoe Wickens looks at the latest winter sports eyewear on the market this year

Bollé Nevada

Bollé’s newly launched Nevada goggles are cylindrical and frameless. The googles feature a double layer face foam, Flow Tech venting and P80+ anti fog treatment, and also come with a siliconised strap and Bollé’s Phantom + lens. The lenses adapt to light due to a molecular photochromic filter and provides clear vision for increased confidence, reaction speed and reducing eye fatigue. The lenses also have a semi-polarised film, which reduces distracting glares and allows wearers to identify upcoming ice.

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Cébé EXO OTG

The EXO OTG is the current winner of the ISPO Gold Award in the snow sports goggle category. It can fit over prescription glasses, has a thinner nose section and wider openings at the sides for the wearer’s ideal glasses positioning. The goggles come with two interchangeable lenses for bright and poor light conditions, which are held in place in the frame with nine magnets, allowing wearers to quickly change them. EXO OTG goggles feature spherical lenses with anti-fog and anti-scratch treatments.

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Oakley Airbrake XL Mark McMorris Snow Goggle

The Airbrake XL Mark McMorris goggle is named after the Canadian professional snowboarder. It has a flexible face plate, triple layer face foam and a rigid exoskeleton frame that reduces any vision distortion. Airbrake XL is a larger sized goggle and as such has expanded peripheral view in every direction. Two lenses are included, both of which are dual vented with F3 anti-fog coating, have Prizm Lens technology and come in two different tints to use depending on light conditions.

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Oakley Line Miner XM Snow

Line Miner XM is an update of the original Line Miner goggles and comes in both medium and youth fit sizes. It is cylindrical and is equipped with Oakley’s Prizm Lens technology, which helps to increase visibility and control light transmission through the lenses, resulting in colours that maximise contrast and vision for wearers. The lens volume has been expanded for an optimised peripheral vision and is compatible for wearing with helmets, featuring integrated frame strap anchor slots and a 40mm wide adjustable strap.

Inland Salice 900 Ski Mask

The Salice 900 Ski Mask is available in either white or black frames and has brown Cat 2-3 polarised photochromic acetate lenses. It features a CRX Polarflex lens, which has an inner polarised lens that absorbs light glares and a yellow photochromic outer lens that is activated by the sunlight and changes colour according to weather conditions. The lens passes through category S2 to S3 when the temperature is lower than 10 degrees Celsius and S2 to S4 when the temperature is lower than -5 degrees Celsius. In an altitude of over 2,000 metres with UVB rays, it moves from S2 to S4 in any temperature. An over the glasses or prescription insert is available.

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Inland Salice 606 Ski Mask

The Salice 606 is an Italian ski mask, which can be worn as over the glasses of the wearer or with a prescription adapter. The mask features the double CRX Polarflex anti-fog lens in amber acetate (CAT 1) ideal for participating in sports on snowy days. Colour options include black or white and red. It is also compatible to wear with helmets.

Zeal Optics Hatchet

This is Zeal Optics’ first cylindrical goggle. It has upper and lower venting, a triple layer face foam and is helmet compatible. Featuring a rimless frame design, the Hatchet has the brand’s new rail lock system, which allows wearers to change lenses on the go. The lens is a cylindrical polycarbonate with everclear anti-fog and a perma-shield hardcoat. It is available in a range of optimum polarised lenses and a sky blue mirror lens comes with every purchase.

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Sunwise Rx Escalade

The Escalade sunglass model has a large, almost rimless frame that allows for a wide field of vision for eye protection during winter sports. It is made from TR90 and comes in two colourways of jet black and white. The lenses are Cat 1 to 3 photochromic polarised, with an anti-fog inside lens coating and hydrophobic coating on the outside. It is suitable for prescription use and comes with an easy to fit RX insert and adapter.

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Sunwise Rx Charleston

Sunwise’s Charleston sunglass has a full rimmed frame that comes in three colourways of white, jet black and olive. The model is made from TR90 and has an Rx adaptor, which can be used for a prescription option. The frame is available in a direct glaze format and allows wearers to put any category of lenses in, such as polarised and photochromic ones. It offers wearers 100% UVA and UVB protection.

Norville SRX10

This pair of goggles has been made in a tough and flexible plastic that makes for a comfortable fit suitable for winter sports. An Rx glazeable insert and clear polycarbonate lenses are included, as well as a soft zip sports case with belt clip and a microfibre drawstring bag to store the goggles in. It comes in two colourways of silver and black. The Rx range available is +4.00 to -6.00, with opp cyls to 3.00.

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Marchon’s Dragon Alliance PXV

Dragon Alliance’s PXV frameless goggle has a Panotech injection moulded toric lens curvature, which offers expanded sight lines. It has triple layer face foam, microfleece lining, super anti-fog treatment and armoured venting. The brand’s Lumalens photochromic optimised colour tints are a feature, where the adaptive lenses change colour and tint depending on the light and weather conditions. The frame and lenses are available in a variety of colours to suit different tastes.

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Ørgreen Tamok

Named after Norway’s Tamok Valley, each goggle comes in three lens colours of Arctic Chrome, Ice Chrome and Northern Light Chrome and four frame colours of black, white, electric blue and army green. The frames are made from flexible thermoplastic polyurethane and have a triple layer moisture wicking face foam for high altitudes. The goggle is also equipped with dual anti-fog coated lenses with 100% UVA and UVB protection and a silicone lined strap.

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