Goggles or OTG Goggles??

Personally i wear normal glasses all the time but find no matter what the weather is that sun glasses are good enough on their own, haven't ever really worn googles as i find they steam up too much even with an anti-fog system. As long as you wear a hat and facial balaclava then you will be warm enough and won't cost as much....

I find I need to wear goggles when the light is 'flat' and I can't see the dips and bumps. My sunglasses don't work very well in those conditions. Plus, the goggles are better in a blizzard.

Bandit - I can ski okay now without having to see my skis, but I wasn't very good at ski-ing when I first started to wear the OTG goggles, and it was very off-putting. I suppose it was something like losing the use of one eye (except that I could still see in 3-D) and I had to learn to manage like that.

Ally

Perhaps your sunglasses are too dark?

Having worn glasses since childhood until I had my eyes lasered (16 years ago) I found being able to ditch my glasses a joy & find that wearing sunnies a nuicance and goggles even worse.
I do have a pair of goggles - photochromic ones but I've never worn them - beautiful weather in Cormayeur last year & my daughter decided that fitted better than hers with her new helmet!

Naturally even a stubborn twit like me wouldn't ski without eye protection.

just a thought, but it's worth bearing in mind, that even with goggles over glasses, that glass lens, and metal frames still pose a risk of injury. This might be worse if not wearing a helmet, as the helmet does take the brunt, in the event of a face place. I've seen a couple of people, with cut up faces from metal frame sunglasses.

Trencher wrote:just a thought, but it's worth bearing in mind, that even with goggles over glasses, that glass lens, and metal frames still pose a risk of injury. This might be worse if not wearing a helmet, as the helmet does take the brunt, in the event of a face place. I've seen a couple of people, with cut up faces from metal frame sunglasses.

Yup, I am a goggles wearer that has smashed a pair of specs into my face. Lenses remained intact, specs frames broke into several pieces. I had face planted, got a bruised face and so a nice Swiss optician made me a new pair overnight using the lenses.

I'd love to go back into contacts, but it's not working out for me currently.

you can tell a goggle is OTG if it has indents in the side of the frame to relieve pressure from your face when you wear glasses under the goggles. I'll suggest to check 2 options (on top of contact lenses): sunglasses/goggles traverse and prescription optical insert that becomes one with the goggle.