Anon Logan WaveCel Ski & Snowboard Helmet

Review by Erin Trail

Initial Thoughts

The Anon Logan WaveCel® Ski & Snowboard Helmet is a lightweight and comfortable helmet that is low profile and lightweight.

Detailed Review

The Anon Logan WaveCel® Ski & Snowboard Helmet is a comfortable and lightweight helmet that utilizes the 360° BOA® Fit System for a customized fit. I wear a lot of helmets (ski + bike) and finding helmets that don’t pinch or put pressure on parts of my head can be a challenge. I originally ordered a size small, basing the measurements off of my typical bike helmet sizing. I found the small to be too small and exchanged it for a medium. The medium fits me perfectly, allowing room for my dutch braid hairstyle and a balaclava.

The Anon Logan WaveCel® Ski & Snowboard Helmet pairs 3D cellular protection with an in-mold construction featuring a lightweight shell with an EPS and WaveCel liner designed in a sleek, low-profile style. WaveCel is a collapsible cellular structure that lines the inside of the helmet and can reduce impact and rotational force by flexing to reduce initial force, crumpling to lower impact velocity, and gliding to help redirect energy away from the head. Translated – the shell of this helmet will protect your head from impacts and rotational forces, making sure that you’re covered from any possible angle.

Another nice feature is the helmet buckle. The Anon Logan WaveCel® Ski & Snowboard Helmet uses a Fidlock® magnetic helmet strap, which clicks together easily. The helmet latches under your chin without needing to take off your gloves.

The 360° BOA® Fit System provides a customized and secure fit. As you engage the BOA® Fit System, you can feel it tighten evenly around your head. I found this fit system to be very balanced – no pinch or pressure points. Once I dialed in the BOA® Fit System, the helmet felt protective and it passed the head wiggle + jump test.

I wore the Anon Logan WaveCel® Ski & Snowboard Helmet with a few different pairs of goggles. The goggle strap slides into a retainer in the back of the helmet – this retainer doesn’t use clips of snaps, the strap is just held into place by pressure. This was a nice feature because I didn’t need to remove my gloves to secure my goggle strap. The goggles I wore lined up well with the helmet’s edges at the forehead and the sides of the face, leaving no gaps that expose skin.

I tested the Anon Logan WaveCel® Ski & Snowboard Helmet on some truly cold and windy Colorado days. Temperatures were well below freezing and windchill was below zero. I wore a light balaclava to protect my face and to add an additional warmth layer to my head. I found the helmet to work well with that layer. I never once got brain freeze or felt my head get cold. Conversely, as temperatures warmed up one afternoon, my head never became hot.

The ear covers are also really comfortable. I have some ear cartilage piercings that don’t always play well with ski helmets. I didn’t have any issues with the Anon Logan WaveCel® Ski & Snowboard Helmet squishing my ears or making them feel uncomfortable.

Closing Thoughts

Overall, I found the Anon Logan WaveCel® Ski & Snowboard Helmet to be a lightweight and easy to wear helmet. The fit was great, allowing room for my hair braids and a balaclava, with no pressure zones or pinch points. The helmet offers fantastic impact protection and offers features that make the helmet easy to use while keeping your gloves on. I found this helmet to be super easy to wear, due to the excellent fitting 360° BOA® Fit System and the lightness of the helmet materials. As a bonus: there’s plenty of real estate for all of your stickers.

Erin Trail

Erin Trail’s hobby is collecting hobbies. She’s a 5th Generation Coloradan and grew up exploring the outdoors on family camping trips and hikes.  Her first backpacking trip was at eight years old to Grizzly Reservoir – she proudly carried all of her own gear those 3 miles from the main parking lot to the Reservoir.

Erin is an adult-onset athlete who started as a Masters Swimmer and then developed into a triathlete.  She completed 5 Ironman races and nearly 20 x 70.3 distance Ironman races, including the World Championship in Lahti, Finland, in 2023.  Somewhere along her triathlon journey, she picked up a deep love of cycling.

Cycling encouraged her to see landscapes in a new way, learn new skills and to develop self reliance; now she often goes and does Type 2 rides just to see if she can do it.  She’s got all the bikes: gravel, mountain, fat bike, time trial and road.

She is even known to combine her love of camping and cycling and go off on solo 24 hour overnight bikepacking trips in the mountains of Colorado. In addition to bikes, she teaches yoga, lifts weights, skis, SUPs and has recently purchased a campervan.

Erin is a former Montana park ranger with a degree in environmental engineering.  She loves getting into technical details while putting her gear (and herself) through the paces. She shares her home in Colorado with her husband, Will, and her 3 cats (Zipper, Brewtus, and Simcoe).

2025 brings some exciting things.  Erin has qualified to be on Team USA for USA Triathlon and will be competing in a World Championship off-road triathlon in Pontevedra, Spain in June. To prepare for this event, she’s got several mountain bike races and training weekends planned in the months leading up to the big day.  Additionally, she’s racing Ironman Boise 70.3 in July.  Once her race schedule closes out in July, she’ll be moving to more adventure based activities (bikepacking, vanlife, and mountain bike festivals).

When not adventuring, she can be found on a sunny patio somewhere, drinking beers with her husband.