danger

i dont even use poles anymore

Line101

thats not bad in the park but in the powder it makes it alot harder. and froget about the moguls.

danger

if wintergreen ever has powder, ill use poles, but i wont be using poles in the next couple hundred years

Line101

ya ive never been out there

danger

yah, wintergreen va is not worth it. best tubing park in the state though.
ive always kinda wanted to ski down a tubing lane. giant rollers, skinny lanes and 40mph top speeds on a tube. niiiiice

Line101

thats sick

danger

i havent done it. they would arrest me and ban me from the mountain

Adam

Sometimes when Im snowboarding I wish I just had a set of poles!
The bother of taking your foot from its binding to walk up a track really sucks!

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Adam

Line101

ya that would be a pain to have to take your foot out of your bnding every time you get on a char lift.

scottp96145

I never use straps, except to hang up my poles when I am finished skiing. There was a time when poles did not have straps--only hand grips.
Nothing to do with how skilled I am or how frequently or infrequently I fall. More to do with the seriousness of my falls and the liability pole straps place on my ability to free my hand from the pole/ strap to avoid potential thumb or hand injuries. Like running gates (racing) or glade or tree skiing where there is a potential for a serious fall or "catching a pole basket".

There is a danger of thumb or hand injury if you happen to fall on the pole and somehow your hand is wedged between the pole and body. -- I would rather hike up to get my pole than suffer a thumb dislocation. Also if your pole basket gets caught anywhere while you are flying down the mountain, or getting on or off a lift, and it happens past enough so that you cannot get your hand out of the strap, there is the potential for injury.