The Smith Squad is Smith’s value ChromaPop goggle, a cylindrical carbonic-x lens paired with contrast-tuned optics at a price that sits well below the brand’s MAG flagships. The cylindrical lens curves side to side but stays flat top to bottom, so you trade a little of the wraparound view of a spherical lens for a slimmer profile and a friendlier price. Smith’s ChromaPop tint separates colors the eye tends to confuse, which helps texture and edges in the snow read more clearly in the flat, gray light the Pacific Northwest hands you. TLT lens technology and a Fog-X anti-fog inner coating round out the optics, with Airflow venting moving air through the frame to hold off fogging.

On the fit side, the Responsive Fit frame flexes to your face over two-layer DriWix foam, and an ultra-wide, silicone-backed strap with dual-slide adjustment holds position on a helmet. Smith builds the Squad to integrate with its own helmets, so the goggle and lid meet cleanly across the forehead. The Squad ships with a replacement lens and a microfiber bag — a useful addition at this price — though the frame is not the MAG magnetic quick-change system, so swapping tints means easing the lens out by hand rather than snapping it in. The standard Squad runs the larger fit; smaller faces are better served by the Squad S.

The Squad sits in Smith’s Good tier. Step up to the Squad MAG and you gain the magnetic MAG lens-change system for faster tint swaps; climb higher to the I/O MAG or 4D MAG and the lens goes spherical for a wider field of view, both at a higher price. Reach for the Squad if you want ChromaPop contrast and a bundled second lens in a clean cylindrical frame without paying flagship money. Look higher in the line if you want quick magnetic swaps or the wider view of a spherical lens.