So.....how do you carry yours?

[Serafina]

What's the point of the local? Seems like it is more likely to decapitate the person behind you.

Depends on how you carry it. Mr. S. goes for a decapitating local, and I ride his butt. If you're doing it in a social-minded way, you get a lot of elevation, and the ski tips (or tails) are way up in the air, and not sticking out behind you.

 

[OECbelle]

Local for me! I can't really say I've ever seen most of these other methods, lol.

 

[snowski/swimmouse]

Fish more often than not; I'd be a danger to anyone around me I had the on my shoulders more!!!

 

[Serafina]

Reverse Local for me, between the car and the base. Once I boot up and am taking my skis out on the snow to clip in, it's pimp-stick all the way!

 

[snowski/swimmouse]

Fish more often than not; I'd be a danger to anyone around me I had the on my shoulders more!!!

 

[Ringrat]

The jibber drag is used when you heli-ski. Heli-ski guides won't let you put your skis above your waist. You don't want to get a ski in the rotor blade!!

I've never heli-skied but all our rescue pilots tell us to use something like the escort, offering, or tommy gun. As long as it's low and horizontal. Or course, all those methods are pretty much one-pair-at-a-time deals.

 

[pinto]

Fishhook in a queue and for shorter distances, the Local for longer trips, though I seem to have a longstanding tender spot on my shoulder which makes it uncomfortable-need shoulder pads!

When my son was in about 5th grade, they had to enter something in the Invention Convention at school. The task was to invent something to help you out with an inconvenience you have in your life. This was his, the uncomfortable spot on his shoulder when carrying skis. He invented the Shoulder Donut ... which was basically a flattened rubber ball covered in duct tape, and you perched it on your shoulder, in between skis and body, to cushion the tenderness. I don't think he actually ever used it in real life, but we always laugh about the Shoulder Donut. Trademarked, of course.

 

[pinto]

Local, and fish hook in crowds, as others have said.

But ... I want to take this time to say WTF can't anyone carry their poles without stabbing the people behind them??? straight up and down, please. The past two days I've had more people almost put my eyes out, or disembowel me, or something, because they are carrying poles parallel to ground. And swinging them wildly to boot.

 

[snowski/swimmouse]

I confess I always carry my poles parallel to the ground from the lot to the lodge because I have the lunchsized cooler in the same hand, but I'm not swinging them so noone should be that close anyway. But I'd be deadly with the skis parallel!

 

[SkiGAP]

which one of us is most injured at the time .

Not to make light of your pain, but that made me laugh...

 

[snowbeach]

Definitely the local with the occasional modified fishhook.

Great video!

 

[litterbug]

Bazooka is shoulder in between the toe and heel piece. Local is tips forward, bindings behind your shoulder. Reverse local is skis backwards to tails in front.

I'm usually the Bazooka because it seems logical to pick the skis up and put them on my shoulder, especially if I'm hiking a ways, and I pull the tails down so that in theory the tips will point up into the airand not poke any eyes out. I've been guilty of the Escort, too, usually when I'm juggling too much stuff, but I try to avoid it because that's how I pulled so much stitching out of my beloved traffic-cone-orange nano puff hoody. :mad:

But they don't have a name for my other technique, which is to just hold the skis vertically, tips up, with one hand behind the toepieces. It usually takes a few ski days before my hands and arms are strong enough to do that for any length of time, but by the end of the season it's my favored method.

My poles are my weak spot, though. They're always an afterthought, and I'm embarrassed to say that sometimes I'm the one swinging pointy objects in a crowd. :oops:

 

[Ashleigh Lawrence]

But ... I want to take this time to say WTF can't anyone carry their poles without stabbing the people behind them???

The Huz does this. Drives me mad.

 

[vhf]

Ha! I'm usually some sort of "local" I guess. And I totally agree with the danger of poles!

 

[pinto]

haha, consider this the PSA for thinking about one's poles.

For instance, when you are walking up stairs, and carrying your poles wrong, the tips are at eye level of the person behind you. Also, it's nice to have the tips on the ground (or close) if you are walking on slippery surfaces, which do happen around ski areas, you can easily use your poles for support or to help out if you start to slip.

I don't know, I just somehow hit this critical mass of being annoyed with poles swinging wildly about my torso and head. Sorry. Will go away now.

 

[Jilly]

I won't even start on the poles......I'm with Pinto....I've "swatted" more people's poles and reminded them that the tips can be sharp!!

 

[mustski]

Yup. DH is a pole swinger so I usually walk a good distance behind him.

 

[Serafina]

argh. How hard is it to keep both the skis and the poles vertical and close to the body when walking around with them in a crowd? I don't seem to have any trouble with this! (Now, if I'm doing the Boyfriend Carry for my Girlfriend, Mr. S., it's more challenging to keep everything vertical...)

 

[Kimmyt]

It seems like the the people that stab with poles and decapitate with skis tend to be the same ones that spread themselves across a walking path and obliviously run people down that are going the other way. I really do think that there are a large subsect of people out there that just don't notice other beings in their universe.

 

[pinto]

It seems like the the people that stab with poles and decapitate with skis tend to be the same ones that spread themselves across a walking path and obliviously run people down that are going the other way. I really do think that there are a large subsect of people out there that just don't notice other beings in their universe.

And stop to wait for people right in the entrance of the lift maze....