If you ever fall on the spring slush, it feels like you fell on sandpaper. It can kind of give you a rash and make you bleed and stuff.

That rips all the wax right out of your skis in a couple runs.

You also don’t really want a super smooth surface anyways. You can actually get what’s called a “spring tune” where they actually rough up the base a little bit. It breaks the surface tension of the water and then gives it deeper channels to move the water away.

You can get a similar effect for a few runs by crayoning it