 Poster: A snowHead
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I bought a cheap pair of poles at my local dry slope, as I disliked the feeling of skiing without them. My baskets got caught in the matting and popped off, and I never bothered reattaching them, and have since misplaced them. Never an issue as I always hired kit in resort.
However, this year I am taking my own kit, but I need to sort the poles out. How easy is it to replace the baskets and have them actually stay on or should I just buy myself some new poles altogether?
What would you do?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Has the basket stripped off completely, or is the collar still attached? If you still have the collar in place, you might be able to attach a new basket if you can find one – Leki and Black Diamond both sell spares, but not many others do. If the whole lot is gone, don't bother, just buy new poles.
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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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Collar is still there. I don't particularly like the colour (white with a luminous yellow detail), so I am just tempted to buy some new ones that match my skis and boots (which do match through good fortune).
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I don't particularly like the colour
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No brainer then, @Owlette, buy new ones. Though getting around without poles is good for you. 
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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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| Origen wrote: |
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I don't particularly like the colour
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No brainer then, @Owlette, buy new ones. Though getting around without poles is good for you. |
I don't know what to do with my hands and arms! Feels like I'm missing something!
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You really should have baskets on your poles, it makes it a lot easier for the boarders to hold on when you're towing them.
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It does get you much more bi-pedal. Which is a good thing. Can't just shove yourself along with sticks, or prop yourself up in lift queues. Need to walk - and use edges. I've had quite a few lessons when we've been instructed to dump poles for at least part of the time. I was also commissioned to film grand-daughter's first trip up a chair lift, with her instructor. Needed hands free for the cameras. She was 4 and needed the incentive of a film to show her teacher. She was petrified of the chair lift. People who say "kids have no fear" need to meet a wider range of kids. That 4 year old is 24 now and I'm completely past it.
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The baskets on ski poles are easily changed. I’ve done it. Most ski shops sell them.
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Get a set of poles with screw on interchangeable baskets. Even if they break off you can replace the baskets with other screw on baskets.
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New baskets are a lot cheaper
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Replacement baskets can be got on ebay for a few quid. Sets of (used) poles at whatever length you need, with baskets, for about the same price.
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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.
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Unless you go off-piste, you can ski without baskets. However, if you don't like the looks of your poles, it is perfect time to get a new pair.
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@basanix, Nope. Anything other than hard pack will find you breaking through if you're using your poles to push across the flat or when turning with any weight on them. I've always felt partially disabled when one has broken while out on the mountain.
I'm a fan of the interchangeable screw-on types, of which I have a number of spares in various shapes and sizes, give their inter-operability with other poles like walking or touring ones, and which often have come with a spare set anyway, so you can swap them over for deeper or firmer snow conditions. ISTR seeing spares in proper ski shops for very little money, and online they seem to be available for under a tenner for a pair or even a multi-pack.
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You know it makes sense.
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I'm with @chaletbeauroc and have spare baskets of different sizes for piste/off piste use. I bought Leki poles which had two sets of baskets (and then broke a few of the poles so have plenty of spare baskets now). The screw-on types are super easy to change.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Chaletbeauroc, I see your point but I never experienced this myself. Skied without baskets only for a week though. Probably I was just lucky at the time.
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Poster: A snowHead
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If you don't have baskets, you don't have poles. You're used to the pole plant stopping because of the basket, and if you don't have one the pole will poke through the surface and go too deep....and you will follow it.
Not all poles are the same diameter so not just any replacement basket will fit, but otherwise it couldn't be easier to replace. I have found that sometimes once a pole loses a basket, it is inclined to do so again.
I just looked at my grandfather-in-law's bamboo poles. Baskets are 9" in diameter!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Owlette, be aware that each manufacturer his its own basket mounting system. Komperdell has at least 3 - all incompatible - so you need to make sure you get the right ones.
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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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If you don't have baskets, you don't have poles. You're used to the pole plant stopping because of the basket, and if you don't have one the pole will poke through the surface and go too deep....and you will follow it.
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Over Christmas in Les Arcs the pole would only penetrate a mm or so at best. The snow was quite firm and the baskets unnecessary.
Once upon a time. I managed to break my ski pole just below the basket. Every time i planted by pole it just skidded off to the side. I thought it was my pole planting techinque until I took a closer look.
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Sounds like replacing them altogether is going to be the way forward then. I'm not sure I can be bothered with the faff of working out which baskets I need.
Definitely wouldn't use them without. Without on the dry is fine, they can't go any further than the mat, but I definitely wouldn't use them sans baskets en neige!
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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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Just go to a ski shop - new baskets cost 4/5 of f.all
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| Owlette wrote: |
| Without on the dry is fine, they can't go any further than the mat, but I definitely wouldn't use them sans baskets en neige! |
They can go through your leg, seen that happen at a dryslope race, the requirement for rubber bungs to cover the point was introduced soon after that.
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@Owlette, rubber bungs on the poles are required if you ever do a dry slope race. Their presence is usually checked by the start Marshall who will not let you race without them. The slopes own poles have rounded tips so puncture will be less likely. Ski Bartlett’s sells them and iirc the shop at Gloucester ski slope.
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I've replaced mine a few times - just pop into a rental shop - they will have a bucketful. Normally €5 with fitting.
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| chocksaway wrote: |
| I've replaced mine a few times - just pop into a rental shop - they will have a bucketful. Normally €5 with fitting. |
Thanks. This is good to know. If I don't manage to find any I like before I go, I'll do this.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Christiana sport in arc 1600 should have some
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