Helmets for Grown Ups, tell me about them

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After visiting the ski show and seeing really funky helmet cosies like these I Want One, I have started thinking about getting myself a helmet. Last year one or two of the women in my ski school group had helmets and they seemed mighty warm, so when the ear flaps on my hat flapped and it was a bit chilly, they seemed like a good idea.

When I learnt to ski in the olden days (before snowboarders), I don't think they did ski helmets, at least I never saw one, which is why it has never occurred to me to get one. I do wear a helmet every day for cycling though and in a crash, it was well worth it.

On the downside, it's another expense and bulky bit of kit to take with me. I'm neither a beginner nor a speed freak, so like to think I'm relatively safe. I've never done more damage skiing than a few bruises (snowboarding, even more bruises).

Do you wear one? What do you think of them? Are they comfortable?

The other things I though of are, getting a cheap helmet camera or attachment for camera/phone so I can film with it on my helmet. Also, ear phones, although I imagine built in ear phone helmets cost a fortune.

We wore them for first time last year and it was much better than I'd thought it might be even when the weather was 20o+. Got helmets from Decathlon which were very light but I think my head wasn't really the ideal shape for it !

Ooh! I like them! How much would they be, roughly?
I'm always torn re: this helmet malarkey. Insist the kids wear them of course, DH point-blank refuses and I tend to take one/hire one, wear it once or twice and then allow vanity to take precedence and leave it in the apartment. I just look like a dork in a helmet!

I wore one last season for the first time and found it toasty warm. I did feel like a muppet. However, the one and only time I took it off to ski I felt a bit vulnerable and also very cold. Like you, OP. I am neither beginner nor speed freak :) But I am glad I bought it and will continue to wear.

Can't remember which make mine is but tis hideously silver and white but was the only one in the store that fit properly. Unfortunately I also have white salopettes and boots so DCs tell me I look like a feckin' Storm Trooper from Star Wars . I am now wondering, looking at the link in your OP, whether I could cover it with a hat?

DH refuses to wear one. He also refuses to wear a cycling helmet........I've been skiing/cycling since age of 4 etc etc He is snowboarding for the first time ever this year. We'll see if the helmet wearing thing changes this season!

We got fab ones from Lidl last year, much warmer and are back in this week I think. The seem conform to the same standards as the more expensive ones I have seen, not much choice in colour.

all of the adults in our family wear them (and all of the kids, natch). i don't really understand why you wouldn't. i didn't when i learnt at 20 or whatever, because no-one did, but tbh about 50% of the adults where we ski now wear them routinely, and the percentage grows each year.

i'm involved with a charity that does active rehab for brain injury survivors though (including skiing), so it wouldn't even occur to me not to. dh used to be of the vain number that wouldn't be seen dead in a helmet, but he had a head injury at work about ten years ago and ended up with brain surgery (and dd2 has brain damage from a birth injury) so he got to know he's not immortal the hard way. his parents also wear helmets. we wear them for skating (lots of ice hockey), and cycling.

but i'm not a helmet nazi. each to their own, and all that. it doesn't bother me either way, but it does make me sad to see the stars helicopter en route to the hospital (again). i won't ski without one. (oh, i should add i live ft in a town with easy access to four ski hills and lots of ski tourism (underestimate) - no idea whether that makes a difference or not. it doesn't for me - i wore a helmet to ski before we moved here ft.)

oh, and it is much warmer.

Dp and I wore them last year, having never done so before. It seemed odd to tell the dc that they had to wear them and not to do so ourselves. It was a bit weird at first ( because there's less noise) but we soon got used to it. I think I would always wear one now.

We've both worn them for about 5 years now and our dc both do too now that they're learning to ski.

Every year I notice that more and more people are chosing to wear them.

We tend to go in January and I'm a bit of a cold soul, so the extra warmth is a bonus. I even have a lovely thin Helly Hansen hat that I can wear underneath on really chilly days! I don't find mine uncomfortable at all and the only downside is the state of my hair when I take it off!!

Thanks for all those replies. I saw they are coming in at Lidl so think I will pop there to buy one. Honestly, it was the helmet cover stand at the Ski Show which first made me think about one, I was thinking wow, these things are cool, oh, they're helmet covers and I don't have a ski helmet. Was going to get one for my cycle helmet!