Just hoping that someone, anyone here on SP might just have an opinion, or be a little more experienced than me . . . Slim chance, I know . . . I am looking for both a summit pack and something capable carrying skis. I am on a super-tight budget
In my hurried research I have found that there seem to be a packs that are ski specific and if they are, like maybe BCA's, they offer one choice which is diagonal carry and they don't seem to have much room.
I am looking at Black Diamond packs, like the Speed 30/40 but they don't seem to designed specifically or otherwise as ski-carry friendly, But I don't see why you couldn't do an A-frame carry with one of these. Kind of annoying that products such as BD which are all about "bomber" and mountaineering and so on, don't have it in the specs/plans that someone might be hauling up a pair of skis or a board . . . what's that one element that they are leaving off that would make the pack ski-carry capable?
And diagonal versus A-frame . . . experiences???
Anyway, what do you use . . . what do you get away with that isn't specific to carrying skis. (aside from Llama's)