Idea for pollen on skis

I dealt with gunk build-up frequently when I lived in Boston and skied in a skate race every Tuesday night. (Yes, Boston has a nordic ski area - at the junction of two interstate highways, and gets its snowmaking water for free from the adjacent Charles River.) The longer the season went on, the dirtier the snow became. I remember some evenings started off with a V2 Alternate that soon became a slow V1 ... oh the agony!

Anyway, three important points:
- If gunk build-up is a concern, then never ever use the softest/warmest wax in a company’s line-up. (The local Toko rep would always stress this.)
- The longer you keep ironing the ski, the more wax will be absorbed into the base. That is what the previously posted graph shows.
- The longer you wait until scraping & brushing, the less wax that will remain on the surface of the ski (which is your goal). The issue is that once you remove that iron and the wax becomes solid, then the wax starts getting expelled from the base. So let’s say you wait just a few minutes in a warm summer-time workroom, then scrape and brush. Ski looks well-scraped and thoroughly brushed now, right? Well, yes, right now it is, but eventually more wax will come up to the surface of the ski . . . and if not thoroughly scraped and brushed, then it will attract more dirt.

incense cedar pollen:


spruce pollen:


Pollen clouds from conifers can be awesome

Another note on pollen:

Conifers will have a "bumper year" every three-four years depending mostly on regional climates and species. This year is likely such a year for us here in the NW and we'll experience a much greater amount of pollen as a result. For anyone who's into cone collection or just likes practice firing a .22, this is exciting. Best of luck to everyone with fighting off the sticky glop...

Silver peak snoqualomie.
Nature 4 skiers 0
steep turns were fun .
4 skiers four methods
1)Soft wax bad
2)pariffin ok
3)Hertal fc739 not too bad but finally gunked up
4)Scrape and WD 40 good for 1000' or so rescrape reapply WD40
much discussion,much scraping ,much WD40  
passed a skier who swears by rainex but don't get rainex on skins/