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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 8, 2008 - 11:19pm PT
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I bought a new pair of glasses yesterday and broke them today. What kind of specs do you recommend for climbing and all around durability.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there... you know.. they actually do have some kind of sport glasses... but i do not remember what, etc...
ask the guy at the glases place... they would know...
(for example, even walmart, had some in-store examples on these, and that was near abouts 12 years back)...
much better now-a-days... good luck and best wishes...
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WBraun
climber
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Now ain't that a bummer.
I've done that, after I broke my Vuarnet sun glasses I went to the ski shop on the mountain and bought a new pair. Put them on and went into the gondola building and dropped them.
They broke in half, 5 minutes after I bought them, hahahaha
email Conrad Anchor he has these special glasses that he climbs in that are tough sport things that look like you could box with them on and they won't break.
I don't know the name or brand so email him if you're interested.
His email address is on this forum.
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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I've climbed in glasses for 25 years, Now with 3x Lassic procedures I can almost get by without my current perscription lenses. Glasses and climbing don't work. If you can climb 11a with glasses you could probably climb 12a if you didn't need them. With my current perscription I can see either my gear placements or my feet ( if I stare long enough), yes tri focals are in the immediate future but climbing with glasses sucks. Now shall we talk about the routes I've descended in the dark with my perscription sunglasses on. My ol' partners felt so awkard they would often keep their sunglasses on until we found the road, well into the night.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there wbraun... werner... say, it sound like that guy had the type of glasses i was talking about----the kind you could box in... sure was sturdy looking stuff...
nice to see your around tonight...
*all in fun-----mark, TGT, hmmm, seems the ol' cowboy poetry thread has 'drifted just mite'..... found us a nice trail here... :)
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2008 - 12:04am PT
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A big hug to you neebee.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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LASIK.
Then you can buy moderately priced sunglasses and not sweat it when you lose them or they break.
Not to mention being able to see things first thing in the morning. And no issues while skiing.
Best money I've spent in the last 5 years.
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Neebee the cowboy thread is about 6 miles down canyon. As I sit here in Reno listening to "Hot August" nights' through my open window, anxiety ridden about how far behind schedule I'm at work this week because my Winnemuccan foreman had to take his annual leave to visit kin in Montanna..... Maybe that's cowboy for this century.( In my dreams.....it's jus' life). Gett'y up partner....
Lasik... I'm glad it worked out for you, I don't recommend it for everyone. They make you watch a video and sign a waiver before hand but that doesn't really cover all of the aspects. After 3x Lasik surgeries with the best doctor around ( the guy other optomitrist's see). Result one, first check up 20/15 in each eye quickly deterirating to Blind for 6 months and haviny to redo the procedure. 2x time (both eyes) 20/15 at first check up and then fading fast but accepttable(kinda) for 3 years. 3x time both eyes new machine but the eye flaps still easily pop open when "flicked" with the doctors metal tool( Nauseating and scary, don't rubb your eyes). 20/10 and 20/15 well that's after I stare at the chart for a couple seconds and my night vision is scary. I go to another optometrist and they see no scar tissue and are releived that ith that much Lasik my eyes are as good as they are and recommended no further procedures and a pair of glasses. I have other aborations that do "Knott" respond well to lasik procedures. I wish I had the clarity and immediate "sight" of my ol' coke bottle thickness glasses. I can see the clock in the morning if I use my "good" eye and work the muscles just right. Technically I can still drive without glasses but there is a huge desparity between the quality of vision I used to have with Glasses and currently. Including a very expensive pending law suit.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2008 - 12:12am PT
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I had perfect vision until I turned 42 and now I need reading glasses to see the nubs in the rock. I can't see sh#@t.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Yonder (out in the sagebrush)
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Mark & I are in the same boat....Except, I've worn glasses since 4th grade, so I'm comfortable, mostly, but I've lost 'em .....at camp 6, real close call at the top' o the nipple...various others(some free climbing, ......really)Suck it up, work it the best you can......
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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I only hope no supertopian even considers Lasik at home, Is this a Utube SNL joke?
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Yonder (out in the sagebrush)
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Can you do it with a utility knife?....G'head, man, cut me.......oooooooooooh, I don't know, man......
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there.... thanks the hug mtnmun.... (makes it nice around this ol' campfire)
say, i can go one better one you (not in the eyes bit)...
i had perfect teeth 'tilllllllllllllllll.... during my 30's ... they starting falling apart... :) .... :(
(bad dentist fixed them so they'd fall apart, come round-about-that time)...
well, back to the ol' eyes.... that 40-ish time is when most folks start getting far-sighted (due to age, it is)... or just a year or so before that.... (if you are nearsighted, first, though, like i am, sometimes it will even out and folks won't need glasses---but not always)...
***i dont know HOW previously far-sighted folks fare, when THEY become far-sighted due to age---perhaps someone will fill us in?
well, mine didnt even out much, though... (if it did, i'd be able to see pretty well, without my contacts, and still read some print)
edit: ooops, forgot mark----hope your work gets caught up... say, i'll pray for some kind of good catch-up-opportunity of help to come your way... :)
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Yonder (out in the sagebrush)
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Actually, I too have an 'even out region' that I've gained by not being dead......Been nearsighted since 4th grade... Now I take 'em off when I read things.... kinda bitchin', but I fear it may be short lived.......
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there mark... man, oh, man.... sure nice to know that you still can SEE after all that.... whewwwwww...
i only knew one person who did that... no, wait.. i know two... and one has to get it redone, after 10?? or more??? years... forgot why she said this had to be???? (eye changes?)
and the other person, is still young and i have not heard how it all turned out....
me, i just use contacts (cant afford bi-focal ones) but if i take one contact out, i can read, and use the other eye to see far away... works good for me....
man, with contacts and climbing, though, (not meaning as to you, mtmun, but to others) they can fall out just as easy as glasses can fall, too....
eyes are very preciously needed stuff, all right.... throws our whole world out of "the ol' frame" and we're in "dreamy fog-land" before we know it....
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there capt.. or skully... say, it funny, huh? :)
all them other are putting ON the glasses and we're finally TAKING THEM OFF... well, at times that is... :)
awwww, the wonders of the human body... :)
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Mtnmum, The most durable frames look kinda like Austin Powers glasses.
The thicker the side arms- the better the strength & stability. That's what my eye doctor told me.;-)
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