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12-09-2008, 03:04 PM

What happens if you do not wax your base for awhile and your base "drys up"?

**killclimbz** · 12-09-2008, 03:06 PM

Not much besides that your board will be sloooooow. You might start seeing hairs come off the base. The best thing to do is just wax it.

arsenic0 · 12-09-2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jake65

What happens if you do not wax your base for awhile and your base "drys up"?

You will get off the lift and basically stick to the snow, i had it happen once last year since i forgot to wax and i couldnt even skate off the lift more than a foot at a time without it slowing and catching and nearly throwing me over.

12-09-2008, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by killclimbz

Not much besides that your board will be sloooooow. You might start seeing hairs come off the base. The best thing to do is just wax it.

amen.. end of thread..

12-09-2008, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arsenic0

You will get off the lift and basically stick to the snow, i had it happen once last year since i forgot to wax and i couldnt even skate off the lift more than a foot at a time without it slowing and catching and nearly throwing me over.

do you skate off of the lift? i thought we were using snowboards this year

legallyillegal · 12-09-2008, 04:45 PM

And then ice sticks to your board and then you go nowhere.

Extremo · 12-09-2008, 07:31 PM

Been there and you see all the people with freshly waxed boards flying by you on your way to the lift line. Wax fa sho'

EvoKnvl · 12-09-2008, 07:34 PM

lol. That explains it. 1st time out with my wife... At the end of the day, we were taking a run back to the basecamp. Her board was caked with snow and she couldn't go anywhere. I sat there trying to scrap all the snow off. Go figure, it was a rental...

arsenic0 · 12-09-2008, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by thenightmare

do you skate off of the lift? i thought we were using snowboards this year

You know what i mean

Pushing myself around with one foot after getting off the lift to somewhere safe to strap in so i dont get run over by people coming off the lift lol..

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12-09-2008, 03:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
killclimbz Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Front Range Posts: 9,166	Not much besides that your board will be sloooooow. You might start seeing hairs come off the base. The best thing to do is just wax it.

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Extremo -LIFETIME MEMBER- Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NH Posts: 3,112	Been there and you see all the people with freshly waxed boards flying by you on your way to the lift line. Wax fa sho'

12-09-2008, 07:34 PM	#8 (permalink)
EvoKnvl Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 83	lol. That explains it. 1st time out with my wife... At the end of the day, we were taking a run back to the basecamp. Her board was caked with snow and she couldn't go anywhere. I sat there trying to scrap all the snow off. Go figure, it was a rental...