Smith Optics started in 1965 in Sun Valley, Idaho, when Dr Bob Smith built a sealed thermal-lens goggle because single-lens glasses fogged the moment you started skiing. The company still lives on that idea: goggles, helmets and sunglasses that are engineered first. ChromaPop lenses, MAG magnetic lens changes, MIPS helmets — those are the pieces Australian riders actually ask for by name.

Welcome Board Store keeps a large Smith range: snow goggles, helmets and sunglasses, all shipped from Mornington, VIC.

Snow goggles

• 4D Mag and 4D Mag XL — Smith’s cylindrical-plus MAG goggle, the one people buy when they want the wide field of view.
• I/O Mag (Bone Flow, White Vapor) and I/O Mag XL — the spherical MAG workhorse.
• Squad Mag and Squad XL Photochromic — MAG lens change in the Squad shape, including a photochromic XL.
• Proxy, Blazer, Transfer, Tribute (women’s) plus kids’ Daredevil, Grom and Rascal.

MIPS helmets

• Adults: Vantage / Vantage 2 MIPS, Vantage Women’s MIPS, Mission MIPS, Method MIPS / Method Pro MIPS, Maze MIPS, Scout MIPS (including Round Contour Fit), Cache MIPS, Descend MIPS, Liberty MIPS, Rodeo MIPS, Mirage MIPS, Allure MIPS (women’s), plus Arrival and Gage.
• Kids: Glide Jr. MIPS and Scout Jr. MIPS.

Sunglasses

• Lowdown 2 and Lowdown XL 2 — Smith’s everyday square frame, including CORE colourways.
• Wildcat, Bobcat, Cheetah, Contour, Boomtown, Defy, Lineup, Monroe Peak, Motive, Sway, Venture, Westward, XC — a full lifestyle and sport sunglass wall, many of them polarised.

Also on the shelf: Aleck Snow Series Pro Headphones and a Smith sunglass case. Shop Smith at Welcome Board Store.