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A light weight carrier system primarily for use in carrying skis and/or poles on the user\s back between the shoulders. The carrier system 2 includes a plaint back body portion 4 including a top holding strap 6 and a bottom holding strap 8, each with a closure means. A pair of shoulder harness strap

A light weight carrier system primarily for use in carrying skis and/or poles on the user\s back between the shoulders. The carrier system 2 includes a plaint back body portion 4 including a top holding strap 6 and a bottom holding strap 8, each with a closure means. A pair of shoulder harness straps 14 and 16 are each attached to opposite side edges of body portion 4. In use, carrier 2 is placed horizontally and open on a substantially flat surface with straps 6 and 8 on top and accessible. A pair of skis 32, having toe binding 34 and heel binding 36, and and/or a pair of ski poles 38, are then placed on reinforcing strip 26 of body portion 4 between straps 6 and 8 with, for example, toe portion 34 of the binding above strap 6 and heel portion 36 ofthe binding above strap 8. Straps 6 and 8 are then secured tightly around the skis and/or poles and the entire carrier system lifted and placed on the user\s back and between the shoulders, preferably at an oblique vertical, angle by means of harness straps 14 and 16. In preferred embodiments the ski carrier system is convertible to a waist belt when it is not being used as a carrier. In one preferred embodiment a belted pack 42 is combined with carrier 2 into which pack the carrier may be placed when not being used as a carrier.

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A carrier system for elongated ski equipment designed to permit a user to carry said carrier system and any elongated ski equipment held thereto on the back between the shoulders, while leaving the arms and hands free, said system being convertible from a carrier to a waist belt and vice versa, comp

A carrier system for elongated ski equipment designed to permit a user to carry said carrier system and any elongated ski equipment held thereto on the back between the shoulders, while leaving the arms and hands free, said system being convertible from a carrier to a waist belt and vice versa, comprising, in combination: a flexible, substantially trapezoidal body member having a first substantially flat side, a first side edge, a second side edge, and a bottom edge, wherein at least one of said side edges is at an angle oblique to the body of a user when said carrier system is carried on a user\s back between the shoulders, and an opposed second side, said first side being adapted to rest against a user\s back substantially between the shoulders; at least two spaced apart holding straps, each holding strap including, in combination, a releasable closure system wherein the two most widely spaced apart straps define a substantially straight path between them, said holding straps located and adapted to releasably hold elongated equipment on said second side of said body member, and wherein said straight path defined by said holding straps is substantially parallel to said oblique edge, and wherein there is a reinforcing strip secured to said second side of said body member along a substantial portion of said straight path defined by said most widely spaced apart holding straps; a pair of adjustable harness straps attached to said body member so as to enable said body member to be carried on the back over both shoulders of a user; and an adjustable belt system connected to said body member and adapted to be secured around the waist of a user by releasable closure means in combination with said belt system, said belt system including a first portion and a second portion, said first belt portion extending from said first side edge of said body member, and said second belt portion extending from said second side edge of said body member; whereby, a user is permitted to carry the carrier system and any elongated ski equipment held thereto by said holding straps on the back, between the shoulders, and, with said belt system, limit movement of said carrier system and any elongated ski equipment held thereto when said system is being used as a carrier, said belt system being further adapted, when said body member is converted to a smaller folded structure, to provide a waist belt by which said folded structure may be secured around the waist of a user, both modes leaving the arms and hands of the user free.