it’s difficult to notice dirt collecting on the base of your skis unless you use light-colored ski wax. For peak performance, the best practice is to clean the base of your skis every third time ...

Instead, once I clamped my skis to my waxing bench, and cleaned the bases with some base cleaning solution, I simply rubbed a small amount of wax onto the bases. I took a bar of Mountain Flow’s ...

But in any climb of extended length it is much better to use the very efficient plushskin or moleskin." When using a ski tow, Raymond explained, no wax of any kind is necessary except the base ...