How to put on skis in deep snow?

**3eyedsmiley** · 01-01-2006, 01:16 PM

I know this is a JONG question but I don't give a s***. Better to get answers rather than get stranded in the deep stuff.

So I was skiing at Crystal a couple days ago and on the last run of the day, one of my skis pre-released (time to set that DIN higher). I promptly went flying and then took off my other ski to trek up the hill to get my other ski. It had just snowed 2 feet in the past 2 days and the snow was knee to waist high. Well I got the ski i took off back on pretty easily but the other ski (the left one) refused to get put back on. Whenever I tried to get it on, it just tilted to one side or another in the unstable snow. I tried stomping down the snow and eventually got it on, but I guess I didn't do it right because as I took off again towards the side of the run, it released again with almost no force to jar it out. I ended up in the middle of tons of untracked snow in a glade off the side of the run. Had to walk through the glades for a couple yards, and then do the military crawl with my skis and poles the rest of the way back to the bottom of the run, which was sufficiently tracked out and flat enough to put my skis on. So my question: how do you put skis back on in deep snow where the ski is hard to keep in one place to snap back on?

Wandrin* · 01-01-2006, 01:35 PM

For really bottomless this works for me. Stick your skis in tail-first, side by side, all the way in to the heel piece. Step over your skis so they are between your legs. Get the snow off your boots and line them up - then use your hand to close the binding. If you try push your heels in you will push the ski away from you and not end up in the binding. Start standing over your skis, put in one foot, kinda end up leaning back into the snow as you click in the second ski. Roll yourself forward and ski away.

**hop** · 01-01-2006, 01:39 PM

Aw what the hell, it's the new year!

Stomp out a spot with your boot or your ski so it's a bit denser than the loose pow (doesn't have to be much) and then stick the tail of your ski into that patch so it's sticking out of the snow at an angle. It should be "stuck" enough to step into your binding w/o it sliding everywhere. And make sure your bindings and boots are all clean first.

Use this technique anytime when you might lose a ski while putting it on...it beats chasing your stuff everywhere.

**Particle** · 01-01-2006, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by hop

Aw what the hell, it's the new year!

Stomp out a spot with your boot or your ski so it's a bit denser than the loose pow (doesn't have to be much) and then stick the tail of your ski into that patch so it's sticking out of the snow at an angle. It should be "stuck" enough to step into your binding w/o it sliding everywhere. And make sure your bindings and boots are all clean first.

Use this technique anytime when you might lose a ski while putting it on...it beats chasing your stuff everywhere.

you guys are too nice. guess I will be too

...what they said, and also always click into the downhill ski first. This gives you a platform to stand on to get into your uphill ski instead of trying to step down onto a ski that will just roll/slide away from you.

**MOHSHSIHd** · 01-02-2006, 10:54 PM

having looks helps a bunch cause its easy to pull the heelpiece on with your hand....even if there is snow on your boot if your din is 10-12 you will be ok till you can get to a spot to click out and clean your boots...