Pollen Problem with pictures

Same as greg but I scraped off as much as I could before using the citrisolve. I think I'll start carrying a scraper with me in the field.

Anyone have experience cleaning the pollen/tar off the skins- we got a little compared to the ski base; but won't get any glide off the skins with the goo on them.

To clean skis, I let the skis dry, use a metal scraper, and then use a little wax remover; but not sure if the remover would do anything to the skin material. Had a similar problem last year (just not as bad); but usually at lower elevations on snow that was dirty.

I may have been impacted by the pollen factor this weekend in central Oregon too. On Saturday evening on the Hayden Glacier on Middle Sister I skied some of the slowest snow I've ever skied. Even on a moderate angle, I had to skate to make forward progress. I don't know if it was pollen or dirt or something else, but there was nothing on my ski bases that I noticed at the end of the run. That night we had insanely strong winds and the next day the snow was, thankfully, a lot faster.

We had the same issues on Baker this past weekend.

Has anyone tried preventative measures? Maybe this stuff doesn't stick to certain kinds of waxes? Warm wax is generally pretty soft, so stuff might stick to it better, maybe using a mid winter super-hard wax would actually be better?
FWIW, none of the snowmobilers in the same area were experiencing the problem. Their bases aqre composite, too, but they do not wax.

I had a soft, all temp wax on my skis and a hard, all temp wax on my wife's. Her skis had much less pollen; but she mostly skied my tracks on the low angle stuff.

Hertel ski wax makes a XC glide wax that is supposed to not allow the pollen and junk to stick to it- maybe I'll try ordering it. He makes good all temp glide wax- it is more durable too. When I talked to him last spring he told me the only way to get rid of the pollen is for the snow to disappear.

Cleaning it off the skis is pretty easy- scrape, cleaner (I only use ski wax remover on my ski bases- I think Hertel had a caution about that too), then rewax. But cleaning the skins is a pain- any ideas? The pollen stuck to the skis not the skin glue- I just have it on the snow side.

Aha! That stuff is pollen!? It's been driving my insane last couple weeks. At first I thought it was gunk from my new skins. But last night on Silver Peak I made sure my bases were clean before my run and they were gunked up after. For those familiar with this, will the problem persist all summer? Can you get Goo Gone or the citrus stuff at a normal grocery store? Thanks for the helpful info., I have been puzzled about it!