Your Best Ski Hacks

[hafjell]

In-area: ok, fine. Bc: call bullshit on that. Unscraped wax will foul the fuck out of your skin glue when you peel them - no way I know of to get it off (save re-gluing) .

Agreed it only works for IB. Wouldn't but skins on an unscraped ski.

[SumJongGuy]

Thank you my brotha, that took fucking forever.

I agree with PNWB, weak ass thread. Coupla good ideas, coupla ancient tricks and a little common sense. Lotsa snowflake fixes.

No scraping? Well, you'll be last.
Skigee at ten below? why?
Instant coffee? fuck me.
Strap issues? get training jello.
Cat trax, locks!, warmers...

I'm 53, to me a hack is a terminally blue lifelong skier.

To me boot sole protectors are a solution to a terminally fucked parking situation. When the resorts you ski are three hours away and you're forced to park in shuttle bus land, booting up at the car is really the only efficient way to get to the base. Boot bag or even boots on a string don't play well on those school buses with seating built for children. If you can roll up and park 100 yards from the base good on you! If you've got to walk a quarter mile to catch a shuttle bus then walk another quarter mile to the base after getting off the shuttle bus and still be carrying your boots or walk in them without wrecking them in 30 ski days of that good on you!

On that note, working at the resort and having a locker there is the best hack. That was my favorite part about working for the ski school in high school. Left gear there, Employee parking areas.. WIN!

[Fritz]

[Djongo Unchained]

SJG - not dissing on the ideas, just this remedial thread.

and yeah, on that rare occasion when I eat shit walking across the lot, lookout! I'm gonna scrape my ass up slowly and start looking for children to eat.
Ate shit one AM hastening to the bus on ice. Slowly got up and strolled to the waiting bus. Not a fucking peep out of all the gawking riders. grabbed a seat and dropped my gear in the aisle...still silence.

Fuck the Start bus.

[Timberridge]

Here's a handy tip I learned from the local racers. Label your skis "left" and "right." That way when your edges get dull on one side you can swap skis.

[swissiphic]

Workin' on a new tech binding heel with parts sourced from Canadian Tire. Proto #1...not yet skiable. Design goal is have vertical release only and lateral energy transfer from boot to ski better than any existing downhill or touring binding. The 'clamp ski onto bench, insert boot and torque the boot side to side' indicate game changing success when comparing a to b to c. Took a bit of time, used mostly hand tools and bloody fingers.

[k2skier112]

Only if you suck at it.

Same for skiing and ones knees

[rip]

Here's a handy tip I learned from the local racers. Label your skis "left" and "right." That way when your edges get dull on one side you can swap skis.

Iately I've been keeping one set of edges with a more aggressive tune and the other more squared off for funkosa off trail adventures.

Also on cambered skis running more base bevel from the heel peice back to the tail to give them a more drifty feel but an edge when you need it

[Timberridge]

Iately I've been keeping one set of edges with a more aggressive tune and the other more squared off for funkosa off trail adventures.

Also on cambered skis running more base bevel from the heel peice back to the tail to give them a more drifty feel but an edge when you need it

I admire a guy who can take tuning to this level.

One more tip. If you have a nice pair of skis (i.e., Soul 7's, Praxis or something like that) and you don't want them stolen, not only separate them at the base lodge rack but turn one ski upside down. It makes it harder for the would be thief to find the second ski.

[Mofro261]

Here's a handy tip I learned from the local racers. Label your skis "left" and "right." That way when your edges get dull on one side you can swap skis.

Not true. We labeled them left and right because we are lazy and only wanted to tune one edge at a time. That other edge is dull as fuck.

[XXX-er]

I been marking L & R for many years and it almost always starts a conversation on the chair

[Mofro261]

Thank you my brotha, that took fucking forever.

I agree with PNWB, weak ass thread. Coupla good ideas, coupla ancient tricks and a little common sense. Lotsa snowflake fixes.

No scraping? Well, you'll be last.
Skigee at ten below? why?
Instant coffee? fuck me.
Strap issues? get training jello.
Cat trax, locks!, warmers...

I'm 53, to me a hack is a terminally blue lifelong skier.

I'll be on the chair with this guy.

[SumJongGuy]

I don't do L and R. I have different stickers and keep track that way.. and ya, I save the sharper edges that are usually on the outsides for morning or evening refrozen ice. Tune, rinse and repeat as necessary

[rip]

I been marking L & R for many years and it almost always starts a conversation on the chair

Mark skis between bindings to avoid talking to gapers

[Mofro261]

Mark skis between bindings to avoid talking to gapers

winner!

[Timberridge]

I been marking L & R for many years and it almost always starts a conversation on the chair

Why, do you have them on the wrong feet?

[XXX-er]

well i point out its just a reference so they could be marked 1 & 2

[Dee Hubbs]

I been marking L & R for many years and it almost always starts a conversation on the chair

Just what I want, another gaper spouting his opinion on ski tuning the whole lift ride.

[SumJongGuy]

Mark skis between bindings to avoid talking to gapers

Why, do you have them on the wrong feet?

well i point out its just a reference so they could be marked 1 & 2

Just what I want, another gaper spouting his opinion on ski tuning the whole lift ride.

Which is why I just have random stickers on mine to use as L R reference. Humm, Change for Nickel was left yesterday, will go right side today..

[Timberridge]

Stickers add weight and change the flex characteristics of the ski. That's why you don't see serious racers using stickers.

[Norseman]

Hey, that's my kid! lol

[SumJongGuy]

Stickers add weight and change the flex characteristics of the ski. That's why you don't see serious racers using stickers.

Mine are perfectly calibrated to enhance rather than degrade overall performance and steeze

[Tips^Up]

tips up..don't become THAT jackass

St. Brendan's Irish Cream in the coffee mug for the commute to the hill.

[Scooter65]

Iately I've been keeping one set of edges with a more aggressive tune and the other more squared off for funkosa off trail adventures.

Also on cambered skis running more base bevel from the heel peice back to the tail to give them a more drifty feel but an edge when you need it

I'm curious what labeling names you will give the two edges? "Burly" and "Slack"? "Bulletproof" and "Powdah"?

[Timberridge]

I'd go with "DD's Mom" for the funkosa off trail adventures, "iceman" for the more aggressive tune.