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Advice needed please. I’m going to prep my skis just before I leave for the B.B; giving them a good hot scrape and then a couple of coats of hot wax. However, I don’t want to take my hot waxing gear with me, as I’m flying Ryanair and want to keep the luggage weight down. I have different waxes, one of which says, as well as applying hot, it can also be applied by crayoning on cold and polishing off with a scotchbrite pad.
If I find I need to apply more wax towards the end of the week, am I better to take it to a shop in Arabba for a hot wax, or will cold waxing do for a couple of days skiing. It’s all new to me.
Cheers
Awd
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Awdbugga, are you going for one week or two? If it’s one, don’t bother with any waxing gear this time of year, you’ll be fine without. If it’s two, there’s a service bench in the basement of the Portavescovo. Take your hot wax and a scraper, and be nice to snowheads with waxing irons 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Scarlet wrote: |
| @Awdbugga, are you going for one week or two? If it’s one, don’t bother with any waxing gear this time of year, you’ll be fine without. If it’s two, there’s a service bench in the basement of the Portavescovo. Take your hot wax and a scraper, and be nice to snowheads with waxing irons |
+1 just had 8 days of hard & fast skiing and my skis are barely in need of waxing
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| Scarlet wrote: |
| @Awdbugga, are you going for one week or two? If it’s one, don’t bother with any waxing gear this time of year, you’ll be fine without. If it’s two, there’s a service bench in the basement of the Portavescovo. Take your hot wax and a scraper, and be nice to snowheads with waxing irons |
+1.
Awdbugga, crayoning on wax is a pain and has bugga all penetration so it's not worth the hassle. Buy a Zardoz Notwax pocket puck for in resort top-ups if needed.
Also, IIRC your skis are pretty new so why do you think your skis need a hot scrape clean?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| spyderjon wrote: |
Also, IIRC your skis are pretty new so why do you think your skis need a hot scrape clean? |
Valid question for skis which have only ever been used in the chill factor!
@awdbugga, honestly I am not being funny but I remember that this is your first ski trip and you just seem to be fretting about everything. Seeing that most people on their first ski trip don't even take skis - they just get whatever planks they're given by the hire shop and generally don't think any less of it - I think honestly you could do your blood pressure a favour by stopping worrying about all the details of how you're going to wax your skis when you arrive in resort or what extra kit you need to buy... and just turn up and crack on! What will be will be and you'll be surrounded by hoards of experienced skiers so that if an actual problem does actually arise there will be a solution! If you have clothes, boots, skis and poles then you're more than fully equipped for a week in a ski resort.
I appreciate that it's good to be prepared and that's what you're going for - which is fine and the enthusiasm is commendable - but honestly most people turn up for their first weeks skiing with a variety of unsuitable equipment and some misconceptions, get given a set of skis which may or may not have been serviced since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and still go out and have a wonderful time. So if you're turning up with half the right kit and a bit of experience from the snowdome then you're already sailing well ahead of most ski trip virgins and you can honestly stop worrying 
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Thanks all. I’ll wax them before the trip and leave it at that. Just thought I’d check. Not long now. 
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