When you go to a place like Aspen Highlands, you have to hike the Bowl. Sure, the top of it rises to a lung-crushing 12,392 feet and the 20-to-45-minute (depending on how good of shape you're in) bootpack may kill your quads, but the bowl drops over 3,500 vertical feet of wide-open powder fields back to the Deep Temerity lift, and that makes it all worthwhile. To make it easier getting up the bootpack, we asked a Highlands ski patroller to give us a demonstration of the ski-carrying strap they sell. Click to the next slide for tips on how to use the strap.