Not only does the DAKINE Fall Line Double Ski Bag carry two pairs of skis in its fully padded interior, it includes large external pockets to hold your boots as well. A full-length zipper allows easy access to help you pack and unpack the Fall Line Double Ski Bag. When you get to the airport, just roll this DAKINE bag along on its urethane wheels or carry it through the carnage with the top or end handles. DAKINE also added a limited-edition CMYK pattern to this bag for the 08/09 season that can't be found anywhere but here.
Bottom Line: Fully padded with lots of extra space.
I have to say that as a world traveler, with 2 pairs of skis at all times, this bag rocks. Loading it in and out of vans is super easy, it make-shifts as a good bed on layovers, especially when your waiting in Japan for the rest of your crew to arrive. There is no need for a strap, you can't have a strap anyways on the bag when you check it, the handle and wheels is more than durable enough to lay the rest of the junk you fly with on top and roll away.
If there where no such thing as a weight limit on flights, I would be able to fit 2 pairs of skis, poles, my riding gear, and a weeks worth of clothes nicely rolled up in this bag. You don't want to check your boots anyways. Save the weight and carry them on the flight with you as your "personal item".
A huge struggle to get two skis (PM Gear Lhasa Pow 186 w/ dukes and Gotama 176 w/dynafit) plus one pair of 26.5 scarpa touring boots (alpine boots come on the flight with me). Otherwise good construction but doesn't really do as promised.
I haven't traveled with the bag yet, but I bought this bag because I want to transport 1 pair of skis, one pair of boots, and some ski clothes, and it will do that perfectly fine. I laid my 2 skis (1 pair) separate from each other flat on the "floor" of the bag. My boots fit in the boot pockets just fine with the skis laying flat like that. If you have the skis hooked together by the bindings then they kind of interfere with the boot pockets. In other words, if you were trying to fit 2 pairs of skis and a pair of boots, you would have to be a little more creative, but you could probably fit it. It's just hard becuase the boots pockets go down into the bag where the ski tips and tails are, so if the skis aren't flat on the floor of the bag, the skis are in the way of where the boots need to go. I'm thinking the best way to fit 2 pairs of skis with a pair of boots would be to separate the skis, lay one pair flat on the bottom of the bag, and put the other pair up along the edges of the bag. That shouldn't interfere too much with the boot space. You might even be able to fit another pair of boots in the middle of the bag with the skis, but I'm not sure. Plus, that would probably make the bag overweight for a flight. You could probably do something similar with a snowboard and pair of skis if you laid the board flat in the middle of the bag and put the skis along the edges. Like I said, I haven't actually traveled with it yet, but so far the bag is just what I wanted.
