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#1: Snow Goggles Author: Saffronya, Location: Oxford, England but hail from Glasgow, Scotland

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:49 pm
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Have been reading some of the Tyrol books and was struck by description of girls and mistress' out with some peculiar type of snow googles on that I just took for granted when I was a kid reading them.

Does anyone know if they really didn't have sunglasses back in the day, or if you do need special goggle type affairs to stop snow blindness? I know goggles help for skiiing but I thought that was to stop the snow getting in your eyes?

#2: Author: Katherine, Location: London, UK

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:56 pm
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I don’t know. My dad said the other day that he would wear his sunglasses when we go skiing next week ‘this late in the season’. I assumed he meant the sun wouldn’t be so strong (low winter sun in the middle of winter but not now?) but am not sure. I must ask him. Don’t think sunglasses were so prevalent when the early books were written.

#3: Author: Kate, Location: Ireland

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:13 pm
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I thought it was because the snow goggles stayed on better when skiing - sunglasses might fall off. And then seeing as they'd all have goggles for skiing, they'd use them instead of sunglasses on other occasions too rather than buy both. Smile

#4: Author: Rosie, Location: Land of Three-Quarters Sky

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:14 pm
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When I went to Switzerland in summer 2002 we were told to have sunglasses with edges for when we went across a glacier, as the light reflects all over the place, not just straight in your eyes from the front. Also why we were told to remember to put sun cream under our chins!

#5: Re: Snow Goggles Author: Clare, Location: Liverpool

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:15 pm
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Saffronya wrote:

Does anyone know if they really didn't have sunglasses back in the day, or if you do need special goggle type affairs to stop snow blindness? I know goggles help for skiiing but I thought that was to stop the snow getting in your eyes?

Off topic, I know, but I was amazed in Liverpool museum to see early snow glasses made by people who lived in the North Pole. Wood (or something) was cut in a rectangle to go acorss the front of the face with the tiniest slit across so people could see. Absolutely brilliant!

Back on topic, I thought snow goggles were like the goggles we used to have in science, with plastic at the sides and a flat ridge at the top to prevent anything getting into your eyes. They could be worn over glasses too (not that many CS girls have glasses!)

#6: Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:04 am
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When I was at Pertisau, I went to the museum at Spaertz (Jenbach) and saw old-fashioned skiing gear. They are specifically called 'ski glasses'. The glass is tinted and I imagine would have been excellent protection against snowblindness.

#7: Author: Rosie, Location: Land of Three-Quarters Sky

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:24 pm
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Was that the museum with the room full of scythes? That was so fine...

#8: Author: Liss, Location: Richmond

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:27 pm
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Aye, weren't it just! Scythes and Andreas Hofer's beard: what more could one want in a museum?

#9: Author: Rosie, Location: Land of Three-Quarters Sky

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:48 pm
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Trains and a man being a salt miner!

And getting sweeties at the front desk...

#10: Author: Loryat,

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:42 pm
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You know one thing I always wondered about the snow goggles in Tyrol was: did the poor as church mice Tyrolese peasants also have goggles? Or had they an inherited tolerance of the snow and therefore didn't need them? Or did they just suffer in silence?

#11: Author: Elle, Location: Peterborough

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:25 pm
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Liss wrote:

Aye, weren't it just! Scythes and Andreas Hofer's beard: what more could one want in a museum?

#12: Author: Rosie, Location: Land of Three-Quarters Sky

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:19 pm
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Loryat wrote:

You know one thing I always wondered about the snow goggles in Tyrol was: did the poor as church mice Tyrolese peasants also have goggles? Or had they an inherited tolerance of the snow and therefore didn't need them? Or did they just suffer in silence?

They used sound like bats to navigate and were thus able to ski with their eyes shut. It's in one of the cuts from one of the early Chalets.

Well, maybe.

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