See Better, Ski Better: the State of Goggle Lens Tech
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
If you think all goggles are the same, well, think again. At our Blister Summit 2025, Jonathan Ellsworth spoke with Steven Kennedy (Giro), Ted Ligety (Shred Optics), Stefan Stahl (Glade Optics), and Gabriel Lobbi (Provuu) about some different approaches — and solutions — to the problem of seeing well on snow.
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Introductions (4:15)
Different Approaches to the Problem (7:00)
Photochromic & VLT (11:34)
High-Contrast Lenses (17:08)
Lens Shapes (19:53)
Goggles & Helmet Fit (24:11)
Flat-Light Optimization (28:48)
What's the Best Question I Haven’t Asked? (32:05)
Audience Questions (33:45)
Goggle Care (40:58)
Materials (42:11)
Shield Helmets & Corrective Lenses (50:27)
Fogging (53:23)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, |
| 0:10.7 | and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:18.3 | Today we are running another great conversation from our last blister summit, and with this panel |
| 0:25.4 | session, we were talking about the current state of goggle lens technology and also where |
| 0:32.3 | things might be headed on the lens technology front. |
| 0:36.7 | This was a terrific conversation that included Stephen Kennedy from Giro, |
| 0:42.0 | Ted Ligody from Shred, |
| 0:44.3 | Stefan Stahl from Glade Optics, |
| 0:46.7 | and Gabriel Lobby from a new company called ProVoo |
| 0:51.4 | that is taking a very interesting and quite a different approach to goggle lens tech. |
| 0:58.3 | Okay, now before we get going, I wanted to share one fun story from this week. |
| 1:04.3 | I was talking to the strikingly handsome Justin Bob. |
| 1:08.5 | He was headed out to Oregon to see his sister. |
| 1:12.6 | Jay Bob told me that he was in the Denver airport, and he was editing. |
| 1:18.4 | I think he was actually editing this week's crafted podcast, but, you know, he had his |
| 1:23.1 | laptop up, he had all his fancy editing, you know, screens on his laptop. And he was also wearing |
| 1:30.2 | his blister summit flannel. We've got these flannels with the blister summit logo on them. |
| 1:36.7 | And he told me that somebody came up to him at the Denver airport and was like, um, are you the great |
| 1:43.5 | Taylor Ahern? Or are you the strikingly handsome |
| 1:46.7 | Justin Bob? And the guy deduced that all from just seeing the flannel and then seeing like |
| 1:52.6 | the audio software up on his laptop. I thought whoever that was, that's some pretty good Sherlock |
| 1:59.0 | Holmesing going on there. |
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