Ski carrying device

Im making a survey about Carrying skis in the ski resort
ill be happy to know how do you carry your skis in the ski resort- from the hotel or the parking area to the first ski lift
what do you thing of a compact device that will make ski carrying easier?
thank you
ziv

On the shoulder, poles strapped to skis if carrying more than one pair, same as everyone else. This is most efficient way of carrying as weight is distributed to legs and not arms. All devices I have seen, seem to involve making into a handbag with zero advantage. Golf bag might work well if comes with caddy.

If it is a short distance, then over the shoulder. Otherwise, my rucksack has the ability to carry poles and skis, and as Ranchero states, the weight is then carried by the legs. Also, it means my skis and poles are vertical and less likely to poke someones eye out or smash their kneecaps :evil:

Far Queue wrote:less likely to poke someones eye out or smash their kneecaps :evil:

Thats a sport for the french.

It's not until you have to carry them up hill that you realise how heavy they are. I always have a problem keeping them together, I usually get tired, jiggle them for comfort and end up with a helicopter shaped device that slides off and takes someones knee caps with it :oops:

I have tried the handbag technique using my poles and handles but they slide out of this too. I do have one of those velcro strap thingys but I always forget to take it with me :roll:

Any innovation would be welcomed but as skiing has been around such a long time, I am suspecting most ways of carrying have been tried and everyone goes back to the usual over shoulder technique because it is the most effective.

When I first started skiing 6 years ago, I ended up as the packhorse for wife and 2 young kids, somehow carrying 4 sets of ski's.

On return from that first trip I decided that I would not be doing that again so just looked on eBay and there was a ski-sling that strapped on the ski's quick and easy and then put over the shoulder really easy to carry.


Really helped the next trip, but haven't needed to use them since as I either went on my own or been lucky enough that there was ski storage right by the lifts!

felthorpe wrote: I do have one of those velcro strap thingys but I always forget to take it with me :roll:

Do you mean those simple ski ties? the velcro ties that hod the skis together while you carry on your shoulder?
I bought 6 sets of these as i can see myself loosing them all the time and the were only a pound a set at the brume ski show.
Some of the best ski cash i have spent. They go on when i take my skis off at night and sty there until first lift. Then in my pocket.

No not ski just ties, though that principle is used.

There is a ski tie, but a thick and strong velcro tie which then has an adjustable strap between them that you literally put over your shoulder to carry so they are upright. A bit like putting the stap of sports bag over yoru shoudl is the best way I can describe it.

Also got another that had a pouch at the bottom where the tails of the ski's go into and then the strap is attached from the pouch to a velcro strap that goes abouve the bindings and again forms a carrying strap.

This isn't quite what I have but near enough - [url] http://www.skisling.com/