Prescription eyewear

[Chudio]

I'm curious to find out what other alpine climbers do in terms of prescription eyewear. Ideally, I'd like a single pair of shatter resistant glasses that provides wind/snow protection and can adjust its tint to work anywhere between a dimly lit alpine start to a sunny day at the summit.

 

The Julbo Race are about as close to these specs as I've seen (the ones with the Zebra lenses). The problem is, I can't get the Zebra lens with prescription. They make a snap in prescription lens adapter but it makes me look bug eyed and tends to fog (the standard Zebra lens has a "permanent" anti-fog coating that works quite well.)

 

Standard Transition lenses are great, but don't go nearly dark enough (my optometrist tells me they block ~75% vlt max.) I suppose two pairs of prescription glacier glasses can easily solve this problem (Transition + standard glacier lenses) but I don't really want to deal with the hassle and expense.

 

What other choices are there? Glacier glasses + normal glasses with OTG goggles? I'm being extremely picky here...

[Pete_H]

Contacts or laser surgery.

 

 

There are companies though that that can putsprescription lenses for sports in sunglass frames. They can't do a lense that goes the whole spectrum though, so they can't go from from completely clear to really dark. If you get them glacier glasses dark they don't go all the way light.

[111]

I have tried a number of things, and short of laser, contacts are the way to go. Nothing has given a comparable ease of use.

[G-spotter]

What other choices are there? ..

 

Pair of fitovers. $25

Bust them? Scratch them? Buy a new pair. You're out $25.

 

Bust prescription mountaineering sunglasses? you're out 20 times that.

[Jim]

I bought a pair of prescription Jublos, I think they are Nomads, here: http://www.opticus.com/

 

Work well. Just need you prescription specs. You can talk to one of their optometrists about options.

[Pete_H]

What other choices are there? ..

 

Pair of fitovers. $25

Bust them? Scratch them? Buy a new pair. You're out $25.

 

Yeah but you look like a dork.

[Crillz]

There's lots of different contact lenses, and some fit better and are more comfortable than others.

 

Get some that you can keep in for extended periods of time (like a week or more) - started doing this last year sometime, and it's f*cking awesome. Nothing like taking out and putting in contacts daily, after about a week with no shower or real hand washing.