“Snowboarding is an expensive hobby, inevitable due to its highly seasonal nature, infrastructure costs and large amount of gear required. Other than being strapped to your board it’s the key difference between us and skateboarding, at least in terms of accessibility, so we’re always stoked when something comes across that dramatically reduces the price of riding.

The proviso, is it has to work, and often you’ll see cut price entries to to snowboard market that are just, well, shit. Take Aldi’s £20 jacket – yeah, it’s cheap, but it doesn’t provide what you need in terms of protection and probably won’t last. It’s just landfill before it goes underground.

“Seeing as similar styles of goggle retail for twice, three times or even four times the price, I assumed I was in for a morning of fog. I couldn’t have been more wrong”

So I was a little sceptical when I was handed the Head Infinity goggles at The Selection. They were described as a £55 goggle with a fixed lens and, seeing as similar styles of goggle retail for twice, three times or even four times the price I assumed I was in for a morning of fog.

I couldn’t have been more wrong. Whilst they initially felt a little cheaper, I soon started thinking of them as ‘lighter’ instead, before promptly forgetting about them altogether, which is essentially the Holy Grail of goggle design. No one wants to constantly feel like they’ve got goggles on.

Sure, the lens was missing the new wave of blue light filtering and yeah, they did mist up at one point, but only on a sweaty hike that would have done the same thing to any pair. Normally I’d have taken them off and stashed them on a walk, but this was a test after all.

“In a nutshell, they’re simple, and pull off that rare trick of performing well (and even looking good) at a fraction of the price of other brands”

In a nutshell, they’re simple, and pull off that rare trick of performing well (and even looking good) at a fraction of the price of other brands. No word of a lie, this was the pair I wore that drew the most compliments that week, and no one could believe the price, even after I told them the lens was fixed.

The best bit? We turned out to be wrong about the lens – when I put them back I found a spare one and figured out how to pop the original out. A nice looking, lightweight goggle with a spare lens for just £55. What’s not to like?