I think yer hosed, eh.

Don’t forget to structure your base with a cross-hatch in the spring, helps a smidge in breaking the surface tension.

My brother calls it “Blue Goo!” He lives in Eagle River and works for CPG heli in Girdwood……..I totally hate him! 😥 I live in the rain soaked east :banghead: dealing with what i call “wet pow” is life in these parts! One Ball J is the fastest stuff I’ve ever used….and it’s cheap! $90 for a small block of HF10 from swix or $20 for a big chunk of OBJ! :scratch:
Deep cross stucture and wax together is the ticket through the slop. :thumbsup:
Last week we were graced with some 20ins. of AK style Blue Goo @ Killington Vt and when it’s 45 at the bottom of the accsess road and raining there is something between rain and real snow thats hard to deal with. Go fast and lean back is all you can do! :twocents:

@ieism wrote:

+1 for structure. I have one board with some kind of golfball structure they put into it in the factory, that thing is fast in warm snow.

Who makes that board? I’d like that done to one of my boards.

I had my base waxed + structured last Saturday. It did ok, was able to get speed and made it across a long flat. However, it was hella grabby and all my weight was back. Going to a heelside turn my inside edge grabbed and I … 🙄

😆 😆 😆

arbor and forum have made boards w/ that in the past also.

I read on the internets you can use 80 – 60 grit sandpaper or a steel brush for warm snow. Sand your base, cleanup with a scotchbrite, wax, scrape, nylon brush to clean the wax from the grooves. You’ll probably need a base grind next season.

I usually just add structure after scraping with the stiff nylon brush.

[edit] I looked at the Mt Hood forecast and heading to the garage with the 80 grit.

skiing over diesel soaked straw might be a good way to reduce the pine tar build up but Never I repeat NEVER use any kind of petrol based fuel on your ptex. :nononno:
Spend a few bucks on base cleaner or use an orange oil based cleaner

For po’boy structuring I use a (NEW) bras bbq grill brush, $5 at any hardware store. steel would work but likley to scratch too deep. Maybe start with steel brush, diaganol cross hatch, if your ptex has no structure
I brush after every thin layer of wax 2-3 coats usually after or before every day on the snow, works good for this bum.

Try some Californy board shops for oneball jay summer slush wax

RainX or dish soap (be green, use camp suds) in a pinch but OBJ summer wax with a wire brush structure will help but really- nothing works.

I would seriously think twice, if not thrice, before I would do any kind of semi-perminent base structuring.

Use this

Rub on before every run.

@philip.ak wrote:

I have Zardoz, but as I stated earlier, it did diddlysquat.

heh, so much for reading. 😳
surprised, zardoz has always worked for me in slurpee-like snow.
oh well. i guess i’m all for the diesel soaked strawbale.