Written by Artem Bylinskii, Caitlin Schneider, and the VOC
Just a ski strap? JUST, a ski strap? PLEASE.
- Restraining your sexual partner
- Restricting blood flow to appendages
- Measuring penis length
- Attaching skis to roof rack
- Attaching roof rack to roof
- Fixing broken tele bindings (totally skied down the Garibaldi Switchbacks)
- Fixing your crampon baskets for a weekend of ice climbing
- Replacing your ski boot ‘power strap’
- Attaching non-ski boots to ski binding
- Affixing your skis to your bike so you can get them home from the VOC clubroom
- Attaching your pannier rack to your bike
- Holding your bike to the roof, actually holding 3 bikes to your roof
- Holding your bike to a cataraft
- Loading up a cataraft to Trucky Truck
- Holding drybags to that same cataraft
- Holding your friends on to the raft…
- Make-shift skins (attaching branches to your skis)
- Holding the back of the skins to your skis
- Holding your skis in an A-frame on your pack
- Attaching skis to a snowmobile on those lazy days
- Carrying 4 stolen milk crates with one hand
- Handle for carrying more grocery bags than you can hold in one hand
- Attaching brake caliper to handle bars
- Attaching your head lamp to your bike handlebars
- To connect two skis together lengthwise to make a long reamer to remove powder snow from the Brew chimney
- Makeshift zipper for broken jackets
- Re-balancing a table leg
- Holding together Donald Trump’s head, or holding on his hair
- Fixing a broken ski pole with an ice ax splint
- Attaching an ice ax to your pole in order to make a whippet
- Ice axe carrying loops
- Slingshot
- Gaiters
- Closing pots
- Being orange
- Currency and bartering
- Building rescue sleds
- Making leg splints
- Getting themselves lost
- Waist buckle replacement for your 100 pound pack during a long trip to Yosemite
- Dog collar
- Piggy Halloween costume
- Fixing a broken belay station (folding camping chair)
- Closing your goood loooking barrrels
- Packing a sail
- Beer holder/strapper (to raft or to head)
- Attaching a float to your drogue
- Fixing the backrest in a kayak so your friend can paddle the Chilko
- Keeping your throw rope in a handy spot in your kayak
- A buschel of paddles
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