Pollen?

Yes, I have a pair of Vector BCs and love them. 

Thanks Andrew, It's finely time to retire my Karhu Guides and I have my eye on the Vectors.

Pollen on your skis? Paper Towels!!!

Pollen on your skis?  Paper Towels!!!

LOL. I use shop towels (strong paper towels) in my shop. They don't remove the tar-like substance of pollen and crude on skis--they smear it a little and it tears the paper. Add a little base cleaner and -- Voila!--they worked like inferred in the commercial.

Thanks Andrew, It's finely time to retire my Karhu Guides and I have my eye on the Vectors.

4th from the right in the picture of my shed LOL Also in that line-up Karhu XCD and Catamount, Salomon X-Adv 88, and Madshus Voss--gave the Madshus Epochs away. I still have my Fischer Outtabounds for skiing out the front door and up and down the river.

...hopefully my pics uploaded with the post this time. This is the black goop that completely covered my (and my son's) skis.

I've been trying to find solutions for several spring skiing problems, and pollen is on the list. The stuff not only stops the skis from sliding well, it also defeats skin glue like a layer of grease. If your tour involves going uphill to get out, this can be a real problem, and has to be dealt with in the field.

In trying to find a way to apply wax in the field, I tried dissolving ski wax, mostly paraffin, in lots of chemicals. Not many work, BUT that gave me an idea: that list of chemicals will not remove wax from a ski- so if it will remove Cascade Klister but not wax it should be useful to carry for the purpose.

All of the alcohols (ethanol, methanol, isopropanol) I've fooled with do not dissolve paraffin. For various other reasons, sometimes it makes sense to carry methanol or ethanol skiing. It can serve as fuel for alcohol stoves, a disinfectant, and ethanol can make a nice cocktail mixed with corn snow and a flavorant.

I've taken to carrying Everclear, since it is strong enough to burn well and weighs the least possible for liquor by content. Only once have I used it on pollen, and it worked well, with a paper towel.

So far this season there hasn't been pollen where I've skied, so no more results.

Anyone else tried this?