Goggles are crazy. Twenty years ago, we thought we had seen it all. Wrong. Smith has set sail on a sea of visual vastness by creating a goggle which is low in volume and big on periphery. The best part? The Squad MAG won’t make you look like a bug.

If you’re still riding with a pair of goggles that takes some special sequence, a showering of curse words, plus a good deal of luck to swap out a lens, it’s time for an update. What takes the cake from a design standpoint, is the Squad MAG’s lens retention system. In what could be compared to a perfect NASCAR pit stop, you can change up your lens and be right back banking turns in almost no time flat. Poor visibility is without a doubt the first thing that can ruin a good day on the mountain and having to wrestle a lens into a goggle frame is most likely going to keep you from changing out a lens that isn’t working to one that will. With the MAG system, plus the fact that the Squad MAG comes with two lenses, poor visibility should be a thing of the past.

Oh, also, if you’ve never peered through Smith’s ChromaPop lenses, you’re really missing out. Stuff looks real. Like really real, like it or not. The optics are extremely sharp, distortion-free, and the colors are, in the words of Black Rob, “LIKE WHOA!” – Mike Basher