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People are always dropping their poles, or they are always
in
the way, when riding chairlifts. A cheap pole holder would
fix
the problem.
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Just tuck your poles under your leg. Or better yet,
ditch the torn ACL waiting to happen and get
yourself onto a proper snowboard. |
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Seconded. Started boarding last year after twenty-seven
years of skiing. Will never go back. |
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For those still stuck on planks, I'd think this would cause
more problems than the convenience would be worth. It
seems a good idea on the surface, but I envision a sharp
increase in lost and forgotten poles, untimely
entanglements, and lift stoppages. Anything that puts your
poles out of the way during the ride up also puts them out
of sight and out of mind when you reach the top. |
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Welcome to the Halfbakery, [jpskier]! You're off to a good
start. Please keep in mind that rejection and mockery is
our preferred form of praise. Return fire in kind and you'll
be fine. |
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Just bring a Lithuanian instead. |
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//Just bring a Lithuanian instead// |
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But if you drop on of those you have lethuanians. |
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Also, this has /got/ to be the wrong category. Neatness
counts. |
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Sports: skiing would probably be more appropriate, yes. |
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Perhaps you could have fixed into the fabric of both legs of your salopettes a pole holder into which you can click your poles while, well, doing anything other than skiing. Maybe you could call them pole pa- no, maybe not. |
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[+] but are you sure they don't have this already ? |
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It would be awkward if two people dropped their poles and got them switched. |
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On the other hand, maybe the experience would draw
them together. |
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I'm just trying to shift those 4,139 boxes of Pole Switch stickers for compasses I had printed up. |
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When I ski, I use only the most expensive carbon fiber composite poles. With rose-tinted diamond tips (although only industrial diamonds!). I wonder if your proposed holder would be of use to one such as me. |
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From your pole choice alone I'm guessing you don't even
ride the chairlift, preferring instead to have a gold-plated
helicopter ferry you to the summit, so the answer is mostly
likely no. |
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So, not a device fixed to the bedrock, better to support the pylons standing at regular intervals along the route of the lift? |
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Nah, they already got those. |
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//Nah, they already got those
Narrowly avoids obligatory Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference.. |
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Anyway, if there is such a constant deluge of ski poles falling from the skies it could become an alternate form of execution, or at least fit the poles with piezo-electric crystals to harness some of the the energy. |
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I wouldn't call it a deluge, but I see at least one fallen pole
every time I go out, and usually a glove or mitten. If it
helps build a demographic, I've been an avid skier for
twenty-eight years (I average about 40 days per season)
and I've been hit by falling equipment only once. |
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Ok, we can just do this as trial by ordeal...probably go down well in Texas, assuming they haven't executed everybody first. |
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The problem is that skiiers traverse the lift in the opposite direction from those riding it. If someone on the lift were shedding personal items, Alterother skiing below the lift would likely encounter the poles only at the bottom of the hill, with mittens, skis and hats farther up, pants and shirts farther up yet, and underpants / colostomy bag at the very top of the hill. |
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Poles are also dropped near the top of the lift, when
passengers are fumbling to put their mittens back on
before disembarking. |
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As it happens, the dropped item that struck me was a ski
pole, and I was near the bottom of the slope, so
[bungston]'s theory holds up. Mittens, gloves, hats,
helmets, scarves etc. are typically found in the tropics
(i.e. above and below the poles), with cell phones,
wallets, mp3 players, and car keys peppering the
eqautorial range. I've never spotted any underpants, but
my home mountain does have a lift-adjacent tree that is
gaily festooned with brassieres and Mardi Gras beads. |
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Perhaps what is needed is vicious clips to grasp the rider and all of their belongings at the start of the ride. At the end, the clips all open automatically and springs inside them forcibly eject the person, mitten, pole, lithuanian and other sundries. |
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People would get used to those clips and want them
everywhere. |
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