Another way to protect ski bases is to leave a heavy coat of wax on them while traveling to a ski area.

The amount of bevel can be seen by placing a flat bar across the ski base.

After the bare ski base is exposed, there are typically three methods of waxing:

All together this results in better wax penetration into the ski base because each wax has an ideal application temperature.

The specialty brushes are used to prepare the ski base and/or deal with very hard waxes.

However, some instead used paraffin candle wax that melted onto ski bases, and these worked better under colder conditions.

That meant that if you were careful, you could iron it without destroying the ski base.

But the wax which wears away from the ski base is a tiny part of the total harm.

With a range of restaurants and hotels to choose from, using Sion as a ski base to multiple destinations is a serious temptation.

In these conditions, the snow lacks moisture to lubricate the ski bases.