Anon M5 Toric Ski Goggles Reviewed in 2025

Anon M5 Goggles Come With Features

It’s pretty easy to go to your local ski shop and pick up any old pair of goggles for less than $100 bucks, so why would you shell out $300 for the M5 goggles? Well, not only do they come with a face mask and a bonus low light lens, but they come kitted out with tons of proprietary tech designed to make your life on the slopes more enjoyable.

Anon M5 Ski Goggle Lenses

All colorways come standard with two lenses: one for bright conditions and a bonus for low light. The darker lens is ideal for bluebird, sunny days when the sun is most capable of damaging your eyes. In the case of the M5 goggles, these lenses prevent anywhere between 6-21% of light from passing through, keeping your eyes healthy all season long.

On the other hand, Anon provides a bonus low light lens with all of their M5 goggles. Equally as important, these lenses let more light in, between 53-59% to be exact. This not only allows you to see better in poor conditions, but these lenses create higher contrast in low light so that you can better navigate through challenging terrain.

PERCEIVE Lens Tech

PERCEIVE Lens Technology is a feature that helps Anon goggles stand out from the competition. This top-of-the-line tech provides high-contrast, terrain defining clarity in all light conditions, ensuring that you don’t get caught off guard by any hidden rollers, moguls, cat tracks, or ice patches.

To further boost the quality of the goggles, both lenses boast a hydrophobic and oleophobic coating to provide smudge, scratch, and moisture resistance to the outer lens surface.

Flat Toric Lens

Not cylindrical nor toric, flat toric lenses take a little bit from both styles, creating a lens that provides the best of both worlds. Building off their already best-selling predecessor, the M4 Toric Goggles, this unique lens shape provides enhanced clarity and peripheral vision, not to mention a clean look.

Magna-Tech Ski Goggle Lens Swapping

The cream of the crop, Magna-Tech is Anon’s answer to variable light conditions and which goggles you should take out. Not sure what the weather is going to do? No problem, just make sure you’ve got your spare lens because, with Magna-Tech, swapping lenses takes a matter of seconds.

Magnets placed around the perimeter of the goggles are easily engaged/disengaged to quickly swap lenses when light conditions change unexpectedly. 14 magnets combined together can hold up to 16.5 pounds, ensuring that your lenses don’t take flight when you take the occasional digger.

Magnetic Face Mask Integration Technology (MFI)

MFI is one of the most progressive features that we have yet seen included in goggles. Piggybacking off of the magnetic theme, magnets along the bottom perimeter of the frames match up with their partners in the included MFI facemask or Techclava.

When they come together, the mask and goggles create a seamless interface that not only protects your beautiful face from the elements but prevents excessive fogging that is often caused by facemasks.

Thoughts, Comments, Coupons and Complaints

Despite being on the spendy side, Anon’s M5 goggles have blown all expectations out of the water, leaving their M4 predecessors in the dust.

As far as I’m concerned, damn near all goggles have what it takes to perform in bright conditions, but it’s in snowy, sleety, low viz environments where ski goggles are truly put to the test. Living in the Northwest, the reality is that we get a lot of precip, and not always the good snowy kind… that being said, I’ve had ample opportunity to put these goggles through the ringer.

I am over the moon excited at how well the low-viz lenses perform, as they make skiing in sub-par conditions fun again. Skiing and snowboarding on untracked slopes on gray-bird days can be treacherous, but the PERCEIVE Lens tech highlights subtle terrain features that would otherwise send me for an unexpected ride.

The Magna-Tek lens swap system is the easiest I’ve used and feels surprisingly durable. The only potential downside to this system is that it might not be the most watertight and on wet days, could let in a bit of water.