[pct-l] Sunglasses ... cheapos Vs brands ...

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning,

My sun glasses discussed at:
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=263807


Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:

> A friend of mine, Beeman, uses these sunglasses called Sport Eyz.
> They're just plastic film with an elastic cord. He wears them over
> his glasses and seems to really like them. I bought a couple pairs
> just for fun. I don't wear prescription glasses and found they feel
> sweaty and uncomfortable right against my face. But I carried a pair
> in my pack in case of emergency. They are rolled up and inside a
> small container like a film canister. At one point I lost my
> sunglasses and was happy I had these as a backup. I would have gone
> snowblind because I was in the Sierras. The little canister had a
> flip-top lid so I used that to make a protective cover on my
> camelback hose. Now I don't have to worry about germs and dirt when I
> set down my pack. All in all, the $5 sunglasses turned out to be
> worth it, both the glasses themselves and the packaging.
> On Feb 5, 2011, at 5:31 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
> > And for those of us with glasses.... sigh... It never has been fair
> > that we
> > get the short end of this stick. lol. I get mine with feature that
> > makes
> > them go dark outdoors, but not sure if all that other fancy stuff
> > can be
> > done to them these days.
>
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