Abstract: A conversion kit for converting a pair of standard trekking poles into a camp chair consists of two corner brackets, two cross brackets, two compression brackets, and a fabric sling for a seat. Standard trekking poles have 3 segments that combine together, a handle segment, a middle segment and a tip segment. The corner brackets connect the two tip segments, and one of the middle segments. The cross brackets connect the two handle segments to the two tip segments. The compression bracket connects the two handle segments to the other middle segment. The fabric sling is attached to the two middle segments, and the two tip segments.

Abstract: A ski binding rescue device having an attachment mechanism for attaching the device to a pair of skis to form a sled. The device attaches to the bindings of a pair of skis and serves to maintain the skis in a parallel orientation. The device has an attachment mechanism for attaching to the toe portion of a ski binding and to the heel portion of a ski binding. The device has one or more rigid lengths that span between the ski binding attachments to serve to connect and maintain the skis in a parallel orientation and potentially to provide an area to place a person to be moved on the sled or other goods.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a solution for releasably attaching and fastening an end piece to a pole such as a ski pole suited for cross country skiing, downhill skiing roller skiing or walking. The end piece may be a basket providing a thrust bearing surface on snow or it may be an end piece with a sharp point for use in walking or roller skiing.

Abstract: A chair made of supports such as skis, poles such as ski poles, a base strap assembly, a seat portion assembly and optionally a cross retainer. The seat is formed by first attaching two supports together at the tips by a fastener, the upward facing support tips pointing downward. The upward facing support tails are then connected to the top handles of the poles, while a sling type seat constructed from a flexible material, such as nylon, is connected to the supports using web straps. The ski poles, being in an upright crossed position, support the chair and are held in place by a bottom triangular strap assembly connecting the bottom tips of the ski poles to the tips of the skis.

Abstract: A crutch support system including a pair of crutches is disclosed. Each crutch includes a pair of support shafts. Each support shaft includes a plurality of hand grip adjustment holes and a seat support pin received in hand grip adjustment holes in each support shaft pair. A seat is releasably connected to the seat support pins.

Abstract: A pocket ski seat for suspension between poles is formed of a strap that is folded over at the ends and stitched at the sides to form pockets for the ends of the poles. The strap is approximately 4 inches wide, being sufficiently strong to withstand concentrated loading against the pole ends and sufficiently stiff laterally to prevent gathering when loaded by a seated user.

Abstract: A seat suspended between two crutches in the manner of a sling, to provide the user of the crutches with a place to rest. The seat is attached to both crutches of a pair of crutches used by an individual needing crutches. The seat is attached by one or more adjustable straps and/or release clips. The seat allows the user to rest his body weight on the seat thereby relieving the arms of the user without placing weight on the lower limbs. The crutches are fully usable in the normal manner for walking while the seat is attached and suspended from the crutches. The seat hangs below and behind the user when the crutches are used by the user for walking. The feet of the crutched are placed adjacent one another, while the tops of the crutches are spread apart to raise the seat into a usable height, while providing a stable base for supporting the user. The crutches are then angled slightly forward with the tops of the crutches in front of the user and the crutch feet behind the user.

Abstract: A seat suspended between two crutches in the manner of a sling, to provide the user of the crutches with a place to rest. The seat is attached to both crutches of a pair of crutches used by an individual needing crutches. The seat is attached by one or more adjustable straps and/or release clips. The seat allows the user to rest his body weight on the seat thereby relieving the arms of the user without placing weight on the lower limbs. The crutches are fully usable in the normal manner for walking while the seat is attached and suspended from the crutches. The seat hangs below and behind the user when the crutches are used by the user for walking. The feet of the crutched are placed adjacent one another, while the tops of the crutches are spread apart to raise the seat into a usable height, while providing a stable base for supporting the user. The crutches are then angled slightly forward with the tops of the crutches in front of the user and the crutch feet behind the user.

Abstract: A ski seat and carrier comprises a generally rectangular seat panel, with provision at the top of the seat panel for attaching the seat panel to a pair of skis for suspending the seat panel between a pair of skis, and with provision at the bottom of the seat panel for receiving a ski pole for suspending the bottom of the seat panel between a pair of skis so that the seat panel can provide a sling-type seat for a skier when suspended between a pair of skis. A pocket is provided extending across the bottom of the seat panel. The pocket has a closed bottom end and closed side ends and provides a compartment having a depth substantially less than the length of the seat panel and a width extending substantially across the width of the seat panel. The pocket has an opening extending substantially across the width of the seat panel so that the compartment opens toward the end of the seat panel that is opposite the seat panel's bottom end.

Abstract: A seat utilizing a pair of skis and a pair of ski poles as a frame including a cloth-like seat having the ski poles attached at opposite end with portions of each ski pole extending beyond side edges of the seat. One ski pole is attached to the tip of each ski by way of a strap member with end portions of the skis extending beyond the edge of the seat being supported on an upper surface of each ski when the skis are inserted in the snow with the upper surfaces being coplanar and facing angularly upward.

Abstract: A seat structure including a post which engages a retainer socket on the surface of a ski. A ski pole holder on the post upper end receives a horizontally disposed ski pole which also functions as a seat. Straps confine the post in parallel with the ski pole. In a modified form, the post and ski pole holder are pivotally joined with the holder attached to the ski pole.

Abstract: A portable and collapsible skier's seat includes a male seat component and a female seat component, each pivotably mounted to a respective standard ski pole by a supporting sleeve. The seat is formed by extending each seat component to a perpendicular orientation with respect to the associated pole, and then inserting the male seat component into a receiving channel of the female seat component to form a rigid bar-like seat extending between generally parallel ski poles. To disassemble the seat and immediately resume skiing, the ski poles are simply pulled apart to separate the seat components, and then each component is tapped downwardly toward its attached pole. A spring pulls the seat component downwardly into engagement with a locking mechanism for holding the seat component in a parallel orientation with respect to the pole.

Abstract: Seat made up of skis and ski poles, wherein the two parallel skis rest with trailing straight ends on the ground and are connected with the backward-facing forward points, to the top handle ends of corresponding ski poles, while a seat bottom, which is made of flexible material, is accommodated and retained between two bars, of which an upper bar is fixed near each of the ends to the point of a ski and passes through recesses near the top end of the respective ski poles, the poles being placed with their upper ends next to each other and with their lower ends diverging while the lower bar rests with its free ends loosely on the two ski contact surfaces.

Abstract: A ski assembly and method of use are provided for shifting the upper body weight of a skier from the skier's legs to the skier's skis and ski boots to reduce the strain on the legs of the skier.

Abstract: A portable ski pole wrist strap and seat assembly comprising a seating strap attached to a retraction device locating within each of two ski poles wherein said retraction device is anchored by a support wire fixed within the ski pole handle. The seating straps having a locking clasp which interlocks with the opposing locking clasp thereby joining the two seating straps allowing the skier to sit on the straps as they are stretched between the two poles. Further, each of said ski poles being equipped with wrist straps connected to break-away inserts located within the ski pole handle.

Abstract: A support strap convertible from a skier seat to a ski carrier and vice versa, the strap comprising pockets at the ends of the strap for receiving a pair of ski pole handles whereby the strap is adapted to be suspended between generally upright ski poles to define a skier seat. The pockets include ski straps adapted to define loops into which the hands of the skier in the skier seat can be inserted for stability. The support strap is capable of use as a ski carrier by disposition of the ski straps about a pair of skis to hold them together in parallel, unitary relationship, with one of the ski straps in engagement with at least a portion of the ski bindings. The support strap defines a loop which can be slung over the shoulder of the skier.