Apologies, this must have been asked before, but my search hasn't thrown up anything, and the commercial materials I could find don't really make it clear.
In the places I ski, if you're not staying in an expensive place with a dedicated wax room, you're not getting your skis past the landlady, so forget indoor prep with vises, benches, anything like that. The current routine is a service at a decent shop every five or six days plus a daily polish with a diamond stone kneeling down on the snow. Seems to work out fine for the edges, but could do with an equivalent solution for the bases. On the typical hardpack machine snow I'm on they can need attention daily. I know I should be brushing, hot waxing, scraping, more brushing, but it's got to be something that works at the foot of the lift station. Do these solid wax sticks with a felt ( ), pastes, waxes suspended in a solvent etc. cut it for a daily top-up between weekly hot waxes, or are they only really good for a run or two?
Thanks.
In the places I ski, if you're not staying in an expensive place with a dedicated wax room, you're not getting your skis past the landlady, so forget indoor prep with vises, benches, anything like that. The current routine is a service at a decent shop every five or six days plus a daily polish with a diamond stone kneeling down on the snow. Seems to work out fine for the edges, but could do with an equivalent solution for the bases. On the typical hardpack machine snow I'm on they can need attention daily. I know I should be brushing, hot waxing, scraping, more brushing, but it's got to be something that works at the foot of the lift station. Do these solid wax sticks with a felt ( ), pastes, waxes suspended in a solvent etc. cut it for a daily top-up between weekly hot waxes, or are they only really good for a run or two?
Thanks.