I'm strapping skis if carrying any distance mainly because the wider the ski and the more custom bent the brake is the less likely you'll get a really strong lock.
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
@Gordyjh, I watched MrHL schlepping down the lift with scissored skis only this week
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?
@Dave of the Marmottes, @holidayloverxx, we’ll have to agree to disagree
@Gordyjh, I don't think it's disagreement just some brakes are better than others.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Gordyjh wrote:
@abc, nonsense. For 1 thing skis were never straight. For another I have never come across this scissoring problem. Apart from that, you may have a point but I still feel it’s a solution in search of a problem.
Just because YOU never come across the issue in the skis you’ve owned doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem with other ski models.
That’s the most common “nonsense” I’ve heard frequently, generalizing anecdotal individual experience beyond its validity and dismaying all contradicting evidence.
In 50+ years of skiing, I have not witnessed the problem…
I have owned skis varying from ones with cable bindings which did require ski straps to hold together to ones that are 97cm underfoot with interlocking brakes. The problem I face with carrying modern skis is that their bindings are closer to the tips so they are more difficult to balance when carrying.
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Gordyjh wrote:
In 50+ years of skiing, I have not witnessed the problem…
Any Heli or cat operator uses straps. But the same problem exists in the ski baskets of Banff busses, for example. It's a specific problem, can't deny it
After all it is free
After all it is free
@phil_w, if you say so…
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@Gordyjh, well, several of us do say so, and only one of you doesn't...ergo....
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Gordyjh wrote:
@phil_w, if you say so…
He says so because it's true, only need to see any ski movie with big mountain heli-skiing and they've always got straps for their skis.
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@SnoodyMcFlude, do they use Clipstic?
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
@Gordyjh, I couldn't say, they use some kind of strap to stop the skis from scissoring, maybe you should drop them a message to say that it's not a problem.
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Gordyjh wrote:
@SnoodyMcFlude, do they use Clipstic?
They most likely use something like a TPU Voile Strap used for all sorts of lashing of kit in the backcountry ski and bikepacking world. And from personal experience a fine replacement for a cuff buckle on your boot. It's like a clipstic but without the useless pole holding doohickey
From January, I take 50 kids skiing once a week. The most frustrating thing is each of the kids having a different bit of plastic, velco or even worse ski bag. The kids don't know how to detach the skis from said 'carrying aid' and I usually have to work out how to do it with each one. By week 6 of 7 the kids have worked out what to do or broken/lost said piece of plastic/velcro.
The kids whose parents don't give a monkeys and just send them to us with poles and skis detached are generally praised by me.
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Selling a metal bulldog clip to be used in a wet cold environment? That's marketing genius. The old ski sling was still probably the best idea for kids as it is the least work for them whilst freeing up a hand, but I think the closest thing on the market now is the SKLON ski strap which is more complicated but does a similar job in that it allows the shoulders to take the weight and frees up one or more hands.
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@SnoodyMcFlude, the point being whether or not Clipstic is anything other than a solution looking for a problem.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Gordyjh wrote:
@SnoodyMcFlude, the point being whether or not Clipstic is anything other than a solution looking for a problem.
I'd rather thought you were challenging the utility of any ski straps.
Clipstic is an example of a plastic doohickey added to an existing established solution to erm clip sticks and a big upcharge for the privilege. Not needed I say but the opinions of actual frequent skiers seldom trouble the magic ski gadget inventors.
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?
Unknowingly the wife has bought some clipstic as Xmas gifts for our nephew and niece.
They arrived this week, I’ve opened one up and popped it on a set of skis.
My opinion is a waste of time and a load of crap.
@SnoodyMcFlude, the point being whether or not Clipstic is anything other than a solution looking for a problem.
Okay, that point wasn't what you actually wrote
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
22 dropout wrote:
Selling a metal bulldog clip to be used in a wet cold environment? That's marketing genius. The old ski sling was still probably the best idea for kids as it is the least work for them whilst freeing up a hand, but I think the closest thing on the market now is the SKLON ski strap which is more complicated but does a similar job in that it allows the shoulders to take the weight and frees up one or more hands.
Super easy to rig a carry sling with a length or loop of webbing.
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