Plane travel with skis

[santacruz skier]

No regrets. Keeping yourself safe is most important! And now you are full prepared to travel should you change your mind and catch a direct flight JFK-Reno... Northstar and Heavenly will both be open until April 18

I’m going last week open....

 

[Pequenita]

Without wrapping the whole thing, I find I can’t get the poles to sit right, the skis keep trying to come apart,

Are you putting your skis in the tube together the way that one would carry them at a resort/bases together? I put mine into the ski tube with the bases facing out, and bindings staggered, so they are already apart and there’s no room to move.

 

[nopoleskier]

Are you putting your skis in the tube together the way that one would carry them at a resort/bases together? I put mine into the ski tube with the bases facing out, and bindings staggered, so they are already apart and there’s no room to move.

here's a video of sport tube 1-

 

[Pequenita]

here's a video of sport tube 1-

Yeah, that’s why I’m confused about “skis coming apart” - they already are apart when putting them into the tube.

 

[nopoleskier]

Yeah, that’s why I’m confused about “skis coming apart” - they already are apart when putting them into the tube.

My double tube has straps to tie them together.. this video shows the straps that go around the skis

 

[Abbi]

My double tube has straps to tie them together.. this video shows the straps that go around the skis

You may also be able to use a couple of heavy duty rubber bands such as the ones that come around broccoli. I did watch this video to determine how to get my skis safely into the ski tube. And it did take a couple of tries to get it right!

 

[Jilly]

Maybe my tube is so old it came with the elastic bands.....

 

[Abbi]

Maybe my tube is so old it came with the elastic bands.....

Mine came with the bands in 2019.

 

[Ski Sine Fine]

Are you putting your skis in the tube together the way that one would carry them at a resort/bases together? I put mine into the ski tube with the bases facing out, and bindings staggered, so they are already apart and there’s no room to move.

I do it the recommended way as all the videos show. I just can’t seem to keep them staggered together and move as a unit without straps. I find the whole thing easier to handle if I wrap them as well. YMMV.