Time for new glasses
- balzaccom
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Time for new glasses
It was time, after the COVID slowdown and everything. The prescription wasn't hugely different from the previous one...but enough that the new glasses do make a difference.
Oh--and the frames are titanium, because...you know. Titanium.
Oh--and the frames are titanium, because...you know. Titanium.
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Re: Time for new glasses
I wear nothing frames, and that is lighter than titanium.
I've worn eyeglasses for fifty years, and at my last driver license vision test, I passed it without any glasses at all. Go figure.
I've worn eyeglasses for fifty years, and at my last driver license vision test, I passed it without any glasses at all. Go figure.
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Re: Time for new glasses
Having my cataracts "fixed" was the best thing I've ever done. Wish I had it done earlier. I chose a distance correction, so now I'm 20/20, but I still need reading glasses. I could have gone one eye distance and one eye close, but I didn't think I would like that.
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Re: Time for new glasses
After breaking a very expensive bifocals (fell on my face and broke the frame and popped one lens out, never to be found) and having another drop out of my pocket into a boulder field, I have given up on bifocals. I now get one pair of regular reading glasses and another for computer length focus. When I get new glasses, I take the old pair that work the best for what little reading of maps I do. No big loss if I wreck them. I carry them in a bubble wrap mailer cut to fit the glasses. Very light.
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Re: Time for new glasses
I started getting presbyopia (inability to focus close up) in my mid-forties and it has gotten progressively worse. For reading maps in the backcountry, I just take a cheap plastic magnifier. Fortunately, my distance vision is still good and that is what matters to me while backpacking!
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Re: Time for new glasses
I swear by progressives now. I use my regular pair as backups and I always have the ones I'm wearing in the cars and a backup pair in the glovebox.
I've stepped on glasses in the backcountry and had to re-learn how to walk with the backup pair. I was missing the ground by about 4" just to get back to camp.
I've stepped on glasses in the backcountry and had to re-learn how to walk with the backup pair. I was missing the ground by about 4" just to get back to camp.
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Re: Time for new glasses
Same here. When I got my driver's license renewed this year, they put on it that I wore corrective lenses. I took the eye test without glasses, because for one thing I can't see at a distance with my reading glasses on, but I guess the lady saw me using them to surf the web on my phone while waiting. They refuse to change it. Love the CA DMV.wildhiker wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 12:45 pm I started getting presbyopia (inability to focus close up) in my mid-forties and it has gotten progressively worse. For reading maps in the backcountry, I just take a cheap plastic magnifier. Fortunately, my distance vision is still good and that is what matters to me while backpacking!
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Re: Time for new glasses
Same here. When I got my driver's license renewed this year, they put on it that I wore corrective lenses. I took the eye test without glasses, because for one thing I can't see at a distance with my reading glasses on, but I guess the lady saw me using them to surf the web on my phone while waiting. They refuse to change it. Love the CA DMV.
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But without your glasses, how do you read your speedometer?
Check our our website: http://www.backpackthesierra.com/
Or just read a good mystery novel set in the Sierra; https://www.amazon.com/Danger-Falling-R ... 0984884963
Or just read a good mystery novel set in the Sierra; https://www.amazon.com/Danger-Falling-R ... 0984884963
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Re: Time for new glasses
My speedometer is a little bit bigger than 11 pt font and over an arms length from my eyes.balzaccom wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 8:19 amBut without your glasses, how do you read your speedometer?Lumbergh21 wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 11:00 pm
Same here. When I got my driver's license renewed this year, they put on it that I wore corrective lenses. I took the eye test without glasses, because for one thing I can't see at a distance with my reading glasses on, but I guess the lady saw me using them to surf the web on my phone while waiting. They refuse to change it. Love the CA DMV.
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