What do you do with your poles on the chair?

[AdironRider]

Pre rolled joints are the go to. One handed operation.

 

[Smellytele]

i was basket out but switched:
cool racers all seem to be basket in
strap got hung up on something once and almost cost me a clean dismount from the chair

I do not have any straps on my poles

 

[bdfreetuna]

I don't see anyone sit on poles but teenagers on race teams. I think it's a "cool thing" that most people outgrow due to reality.

 

[Hawkshot99]

I tried doing the sitting thing for a while but it seemed more awkward, and my wife got bothered when I would maneuver to sit on my poles and maneuver to get off the poles at the top. Just hold them now.

There is no maneuvering required. Poles are placed between my legs as I sit down, and removed as I stand up at the top.

I do not have any straps on my poles

Me neither. I use Leki Trigger S poles.

I don't see anyone sit on poles but teenagers on race teams. I think it's a "cool thing" that most people outgrow due to reality.

I started long after I was a teenager, and was never on a race team....I guess I am just trying to be cool with the little kids....(that sounds weird)

 

[Smellytele]

I started long after I was a teenager, and was never on a race team....I guess I am just trying to be cool with the little kids....(that sounds weird)

I think he was commenting about sitting on them in the crack of your ass not under your leg. If you sit on them in the crack of your ass then that is a different story.

 

[freeski]

Find a set of 1980 Scott grips and move them to new poles every few years, You split the grip and hang em on the safety bar.
Had a young teenager exclaim "Cool " on Friday when he saw me do it at Blue. Where did you get those?

I have three pair of the Scott poles. I just clip them on the bar too. I took my father's and sister's. I think I'm set for life.

 

[andrec10]

I don't see anyone sit on poles but teenagers on race teams. I think it's a "cool thing" that most people outgrow due to reality.

I am almost 51 and sit on them most of the time. Its just easier...

 

[Tin]

Attempt to use them as harpoons when large women are coming down the slopes.

 

[bdfreetuna]

If you're 51 and sit on your poles my statement regarding my observations of the phenomenon mainly being a young racer thing does not apply to you

 

[deadheadskier]

I think he was commenting about sitting on them in the crack of your ass not under your leg. If you sit on them in the crack of your ass then that is a different story.

Is this what you mean Tuna?

They definitely go under my leg while on the chair. Never thought of it as cool or uncool. It's just practical.

 

[gmcunni]

do you put between your legs before you sit down or but them on leg after loaded on the lift?


after for me.

 

[deadheadskier]

after

 

[Not Sure]

I have three pair of the Scott poles. I just clip them on the bar too. I took my father's and sister's. I think I'm set for life.

Sweet ! , amazing how the rubber is as good as it is years later.

At first I thought the my mismathched color black/yellow would be a pain but they haven't been stolen yet.

My cousin still has his also , after I bent my old ones on a midstation My next set of poles actually caused my UCL tear on my right hand.
Crappy design that had a cap on the top .Was at Hunter on an Icy day , planted a pole and it didn't come out . It basically impaled me in the stomach and I went over the top . The design of the pole trapped my thumb and I heard a loud snap.

I'm sure if I had been using the old grips it would have slipped out

 

[bdfreetuna]

Is this what you mean Tuna?

They definitely go under my leg while on the chair. Never thought of it as cool or uncool. It's just practical.

Yep ass crack is racer style. I never really paid attention to other ways to go about it. I just hold them under one armpit. And lick them to see if my tongue will stick. If it went under my asscrack that would be gross.

 

[Savemeasammy]

do you put between your legs before you sit down or but them on leg after loaded on the lift?


after for me.

Depends. If there is plenty of room for the baskets to fit between the seat and the back, then first. If it's a tight fit, it's after I sit.



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[ss20]

I either hold my poles when riding with others or as is often the case during the week when riding alone lay them down across my lap. I could never understand why some people sit on them.

Yeah... seen so few people sit on their poles I didn't know it was really a thing. Either that or I'm oblivious.



I think this forum has 50% of the 2% of people I see that sit on their poles.

 

[deadheadskier]

Weird. I'd put the percentage of people I ride the chair with who sit on their poles at well over 50% and rising! The reason I say rising is all the people today fidgeting with their phones and GoPros. Put the poles under your leg and you've got two hands free

 

[steamboat1]

I have three pair of the Scott poles. I just clip them on the bar too. I took my father's and sister's. I think I'm set for life.

It was because of those grips I tore my rotator cuff.

 

[steamboat1]

Weird. I'd put the percentage of people I ride the chair with who sit on their poles at well over 50% and rising! The reason I say rising is all the people today fidgeting with their phones and GoPros. Put the poles under your leg and you've got two hands free

Must be a NH thing.

 

[ss20]

Weird. I'd put the percentage of people I ride the chair with who sit on their poles at well over 50% and rising! The reason I say rising is all the people today fidgeting with their phones and GoPros. Put the poles under your leg and you've got two hands free

I ski at very "Gaperesque" mountains (see my sig). Could have something to do with why I never see people sit on their poles :grin: