Smith  I/O MAG XL ChromaPop Snow Goggles with gogglesoc

Beware, the strap is known for sticky silicone peeling off and deteriorating.

This review is specifically for the bright yellow Draplin "bumble bee" colorway. I really wanted these to work given the high discount from retail but I had the same problem as the other poor review. You can't tell from the photos on website, but the entire inner frame of the goggles is bright yellow, which causes weird distracting reflections. As the other reviewer called it, like a bad "car dashboard" set of reflections. It was also weird in that the reflections differed between bright sunlight where reflections weren't too bad versus in shade or shadows were the bright yellow reflections were really distracting. It seemed like a safety hazard for someone like me who rides in the trees a lot, so I returned the goggles.

The silicone on the strap turned into soft, gooey glue, ruining my helmet.

Goggle worked well till foam disintegrated. Smith didn't honor their warranty. No support, not helpful. Disappointed in Smith, quality has gone down hill

Agree with other reviewer comment too small for an "XL" product, but hugely disappointing, my second pair, same issue strap quality - tearing without a way to replace - regardless, the lens clarity is also very bad. @smithoptics, How can you raise prices on a crappier product?

First the good: I like the palm camo design, and the lenses are of good quality. The foam seal material seems comfortable and good at moisture wicking. The swapping of the lenses is easy, and the lighter "STRM BLU SNSR MRR" lens lets in enough light for skiing at night with overhead lights at a resort and has a nice warm color tone. The sleeve is nice to store the goggles and additional lens. They are good enough for my purposes, just wish I had spent less (even with markdown pricing) considering the numerous drawbacks. The bad: These are definitely not what I would call XL size. They are just barely big enough for my maybe slightly above average head, have to tighten the strap quite a bit to get them to seal properly. I think over time the plastic will bend enough that they should be fine, just beware if you know your face is on the wider side. Also not super impressed with their fit over my glasses. They are advertised as OTG, but they definitely put a lot of pressure on my glasses in the temple area due to not being quite wide enough to fit the frames. My normal glasses didn't fit at all and I will have to use a backup pair that is less wide. The plastic clips that secure the lens to the goggle frame seem flimsy and likely to break in the cold if you don't baby them. There were several plastic molding scars and areas where glue was over applied to the foam, making the overall material quality feel low. The gap between your eyes and the lens is pretty big, which is a plus because it allows glasses to fit, but a minus because it means you can really see the goggle frame in at the edges of your vision. It especially blocks vision around the nose forcing you to tip your head down more than usual to see your boots. I saw other reviewers talk about the car dashboard effect, and while the green frames have less of an issue than the yellow, it is still present due to the thick frames.

These goggles do not fit larger heads despite being XL. At ~28.5” circumference, they do not properly wrap around the front of my head compared to Flight Deck L, for example. This leaves gaps at the bottom. Also, with some lens yellow color of the goggles reflects back onto the lens, obstructing your view (think car dashboard on a sunny day). For the price, I would much rather get a pair of Oakleys.

Do not trust the reviews!! As a former ski patroller these goggles have very poor quality. I have tried 2 pairs and both lenses failed on each pair. I used the warranty on the second pair, only to get a new set of lenses that did not fit properly even though they were I/O mag lenses.

These Goggles and lenses are great except. . . They always get at least a little condensation between the lenses, which is really annoying and impossible to get rid of without just letting them dry out for days. After a long day of riding, one night is usually not enough time to remove the moisture so you still have some floaters in your vision or worst case a massive blurry spot. I have to sunny lenses and to low visibility lenses so I can just rotate them and give the lense enough time to dry out. But at this price point I would expect them just to work day in and day out without having to have multiple lenses. The photochromatic lenses really make it so you don't have to carry two lenses in variable conditions, just sucks you can't use them multiple days in a row without some issues.

Let me premise this with saying these goggles work OK, but, I guess???, without a matching Smith helmet, they let in lots of wind to dry your eyes. Now I have to buy a $250 helmet????? How can a goggle that costs hundreds of dollars have inept instructions? This one does. Junk. They explain how to install the lens, but not how to remove. You want to call me incompetent? I am a mechanical engineer with 40 years of experience with 13 patents. Here are the instructions: "begin by pinching nose of frame together and inserting lens into lens groove around nose bridge. Once nose are has been properly secured, lock the frame down around the entire lens ensuring that lens keyholes line up with posts in the lens groove." Ok, to pinch the nose requires way more strength than I have. There are no "keyholes" in the lens so worthless. There are no posts in the lens groove so worthless. I can get one side hook to lock in, but cannot get the other side to lock no matter how I bend and try to force it. Also, there are no instructions on how to remove the lens. I ended up just muscling it out,hoping I would not break something. Smith and REI, get real and design correctly and have a real user experience writer tell how to do it,.