Anyone have any experience with heated snowmobile helmets? If not how do you keep from fogging up eyeglasses and so forth? If you have experience are they worth the money?

Most of us up here just wear fur hats with goggles and face masks not helmets.

We're doing the same thing but one of us has to wear eye glasses to see and they fog terrible and was wondering how you guy do it.

They do make heated goggles with a rechargeable battery. I have one pair. They are nice, as everything else the battery doesn't last long. I bought them a year ago don't know if the batteries are any better these days. I don't use them often. BRP does make a full face helmet the visor is heated. I hear those are pretty nice. They must be plugged into your machine to be on though.

Never used a heated helmet.Full face is a must for brush busting.

I have yet to find, or make a good face mask that won't fog my glasses. I use glasses to protect my eyes in the skiff.
I have thought about some sort of helmet, too.

I just tried a BRP heated visor one out today. It's 0 to 10F degrees When I left the truck and it worked fine until my first set. When I opened the visor when it wasn't plugged in on the sled, cold air cooled off my glasses and when I got back on to go and plugged back in and closed visor my glasses started fogging. A few sets later I put glasses on vent opening to stay warm while I checked set blindly and that eliminated the fogging issue. To much trouble so I'll stick with the fur hat and face mask.

Thanks for all the info.
Just looked up heated goggles. Couple different brands out there. Pricey but they might work over a helmet.
Thanks again.

It was finally cold enough and we got the sleds out that I could finally wear my marten hat. Stayed nice and warm but the face was cold. To lite of a face mask.

One thing you might try....and I know it sounds odd.....but it works on a diving mask so it might work on glasses.

Take a potato and cut the end off. Rub the cut surface on both surfaces of the glasses and let it dry. This will also work with tobacco squeezed out of a cigarette. Give it a shot .

And eat the potato after and have a smoke.

We're willing to try anything, White 17.

Try some shaving cream smear a dab on both side of each lens and then wipe off

Eyeglasses suck having not used glasses most of my life in my mid 40s things caught up with me. I now have progressive contacts and love it back to goggles and the fur hat with the contacts and I'm in business looking at the heated goggles for those days when we get freezing fog or mist have a buddy sprung for a pair I will let him review for me since they are a couple hundred for a pair

I don't wear eyeglasses, but when riding any kind of distance I always have my heated visor. Only way to keep the visor from fogging up. The helmet isn't heated, only the visor is so you can see. That said, my helmet creates a warm microclimate around my face and my sunglasses seldom fog when riding on a sunny day.

Other half is thinking of going to contacts at least for the winter. He's always fogged up and can't see wether trapping or hunting. And in these steep snow covered mountains he's going to kill himself one of these days.
I could see where the heated goggle or visor is more for long distance riding than a stop and go of trappers.
We have to do something frost bite on the face isn't fun.

Hd... I tried a heated helmet here last week at -15 or so hunting/calling from my sled. Worked great until I unplugged and opened the front as told above or took the helmet off to hunt. I went back to my balaclava with the breathing opening and fur hat over. Worked super as always.
The balaclava has always worked, just getting to the age where I want to wear a helmet and thought it may work. Nope.

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I have worn a helmet with heated visor when super cold -25 and colder and riding alone. I did this a few times, but when you try to take it off at a set to work, my beard was frozen to it and couldn't get it off. That was the last time I wore a helmet.

No matter what you use (helmet/goggles) your glasses are going to fog up if you take it off. There’s no product or system I’m aware of that will stay fog-free when it’s constantly getting warm-cold-warm-cold. That’s why in snowboarding we just learn to keep our goggles on our faces all day. None of this on-and-off business. I know it might sound difficult to make sets with goggles on, but you could get used to it.

Skiers and snowboarders have some high-tech goggles with heaters and fans built-in, and many are made to fit over eyeglasses. But the principle remains that you’ll have better luck the less you remove them.

I can't say I agree with you . Using good even decent goggles I have mine on stop to check a set & they go up on my forehead, finish checking set back down on the eyes they go . I don't ever see a problem with fogging. I do see problems with icing on certain days icing as in a thin layer of ice built up on the lense as it builds on everything else that it can freezing fog is the worst. This icing is why I have considered heated goggles. Fogging goggles maybe different when snow boarding or skiing as there is a lot more physical exertion going on so one is breathing heavier and possibly perspiring. Good goggles shouldn't normally fog going on and off when on a snow machine, glasses under them are a whole other story. As for helmets I never use one always in a fur hat. Helmets also are darn near impossible to shoot with while on and living in a wolf positioning area you certainly don't want to stop and take off a helmet when you come over the hill and see a pack, somedays I don't even bother to drop the sled just hit the throttle and follow the back trail and pick stuff up when I'm done