Best Color of Goggle Lens

[jethro450]

How about blue? anyone tried it?
What colors really help you see well in the snow?

 

[NorthMNSledder]

I bet you get a lot of different answers to this as everyone's eyes are a little different. If you search "Goggle color" there is lots of reading in this General Snowmobiling section.

 

[14RMK144]

I like yellow for flat light conditions and they aren't terrible if you end up running with them after dark. I carry a clear lenses to put in if not just riding right back to trailer. Gray works for me on sunny days.
Never tried blue yet.

 

[rulonjj]

Every ones eyes are different. I love yellow in flat or low light. And gray or light brown when the sun is out. I tried red and blue and those two colors mess with my eyes so bad. They are unbearable to me.

 

[himarker]

I've always had blue and yellow lenses. Kinda depends on the light of the day as to which works better. We don't have many sunny days on the mtn...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[89sandman]

Clear during the day, any color tint and I loose all the smaller bumps and finer features, and find them absolutely terrible when you get into the shadows of trees or mountains. Yellow works well for me in low light.

 

[Dirty Steve]

I like yellow and rose in low light and Polarized smoke or amber on blue bird days.


Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk

 

[NorthMNSledder]

I run fire mirror with clear tint (kind of a light red color) for most days. Yellow has always been a good overcast one too for me. On sunny days I pretty much wear a polarized lens either smoke or yellow.

 

[mtncat1]

i like the yellow and blue with no flash for overcast days

 

[SRXSRULE]

Yellow and blue is all I use. Blue on sunny, clear days. Yellow the rest of the time. Eric

 

[Coldfinger]

The time on my cable tv box has blue lights and i can read it perfectly without glasses. The white numbers on the Bose sound system look very blurry without glasses.

Now, strangely, when I have glasses on, the blue display is blurry and the white is easy to read.

I wonder how much if any of this phenom carrys over into goggle lens color selection....

In the past I read that ski racers prefer rose and they really need to see the terrain.

 

[christopher]

Spend most every weekend up in Island Park Idaho or West Yellowstone Montana.

The normal weather is Heavy Overcast most of the winter.

This means classics FLAT LIGHT all day long with little or no direct sunlight hitting the slopes.

Between my son and I were typically carry 6 pair of goggles, and have tried EVERY lens we can get our hands on.

Right now, in general, our absolute favorite for FLAT LIGHT is a PINK/PERSIMON/RED tinted non-reflective lens.

Last night I just ordered 3 pair of KLIM's new Oculus Goggle
http://www.klim.com/Oculus-Goggle-3240-000

And ordered 3 of their new PERSIMMON "Pink" lenses for them.
http://www.klim.com/Cat/Accessory/OtherColor/Persimmon

Hope to have some good solid opportunity to write up a full review of them in early December.

 

[jethro450]

You guys are awesome! Thanks for all the replies. From the sounds of it there's a strong feeling towards Yellow for the typical days I see - which is crappy light. I get a few good blue birds days but it feels like I get more over-cast than anything else.

So I think I will try Yellow and Blue (and maybe even Rose as well), I actually have a set of dark/smoke for those blue bird days, but they get really dark on the more typical overcast days.

Those Klim goggles look sweet!

 

[christopher]

You guys are awesome! Thanks for all the replies. From the sounds of it there's a strong feeling towards Yellow for the typical days I see - which is crappy light. I get a few good blue birds days but it feels like I get more over-cast than anything else.

So I think I will try Yellow and Blue (and maybe even Rose as well), I actually have a set of dark/smoke for those blue bird days, but they get really dark on the more typical overcast days.

Those Klim goggles look sweet!

On a BRIGHT DAY, go for a good POLARIZED REFLECTIVE lens.

 

[Yaeger34]

After trying many combinations I am set on 2. (yellow really doesn't work good for me). For most days I stick with the rose colored and they are awesome. Blue bird days I run a green tinted lense and its the bomb.

 

[bobback]

I finally tried yellow last year and found myself really liking those being most days it's cloudy out there.

 

[norsepeak]

The best I found were the XI auto tinting goggles a few years ago. The would adjust to the amount of light at that time. They would go from clear to pretty dark grey. They worked awesome, but they quit making them...I'd love to get another pair of them.

 

[Rmkguy]

yellow and clear aviators

 

[TS Drag Racer]

I've tried most of the colors and prefer yellow lenses. They work great in flat light and just fine when it's sunny, I don't like switching out lenses.