Keeping Your Googles Fog Free

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Keeping your goggles fog free

(Fogging)

Fogging up is a serious issue with snowboard goggles. Most good higher-end goggles have some sort of venting that can be adjusted to fit your needs. If you are going to be hiking out of bounds, building a jump or some sort of physical exercise, besides riding, then you may want to switch out your goggles for sun glasses. Make sure to put your goggles in your jacket or backpack, not around your arm (it is a lot easier to break them this way).

Higher end goggles also typically have multiple layers to the lense. This keeps them from fogging as fast but once they are fogged up it takes longer to unfog them.

There are also certain chemicals that you can buy or already come applied to the lenses that are suppose to help fogging, these however make your goggles more delicate because they are easier to scratch. The bottom line is that any lense can fog under the right conditions.

Preventing Fogging

Always keeping your goggles on your face and not moving them up over your forehead is the first way to prevent fogging. All the sweat and heat coming off your forehead is usually a pretty sure fire way to get those babies fogged up. Pulling your coat up over your mouth is a great way to keep your chin warm but this also tends to lead to fogging so you will have to make the choice with this compromise of keeping your chin from getting frostbitten or fogging your goggles.

Dealing with fogged goggles

DO NOT EVER try to wipe the fog off with a cotton shirt or any sort of rough material. This will leave huge scratches on the more expensive lenses and smaller scratches on the lesser lenses and of course, scratched lenses suck. The best way to get a pair of goggles to unfogged is to just go in the lodge and chill for a few minutes and let it happen naturally.

Of course if you are not ready for a break then you have to resort to something else. There are a number of special clothes designed for defogging your goggles. Take one of these and blot at the fog, don’t wipe. There are also small sponges available for exactly the same thing. The problem with these is that as soon as they get wet they just smear water and make the problem worse, so use them sparingly and dry them when you are done for the day.

If you or one of your buddies don’t have one of these clothes then a last resort can be made by using napkins or toilet paper, which ever is softer at your local hill (usually the napkins). Once again make sure to blot not rub because it will scratch.

Snow Inside

Now if for some reason you went kersplat and your goggles flew off and are now full of snow you have a problem. Take your goggles, make sure they are upside down so the lenses is facing the sky and knock them gently against your opposite hand to try and nock all the snow out. This should get most of the snow out but for some reason you always get some chunk stuck in one of the corners. If you can’t nock out that chunk then you will have to resort to your cloth or napkin/toilet paper. Hopefully you brought a lot because they will get totally soaked pretty quickly.

-Lakes

Reader Suggestion

Instead of naturally de-fogging your lens inside of the lodge. GO the FAST & EASY route, use the HAND DRIER in the restroom.

-Chad

I always found it easy, especially right after your goggles get full of snow, to take them to the men's room and use one of those lovely air dryers. This saves a bunch of time if you don't mind looking like a fool in front of the dryer.

-Chris P.

You can also use one of the cleaning clothes that usually come free with a pair of glasses, you can get one by just going to your Optometrist and asking for a free one!

-Oliver T