Also, basic advice on maintenance between trips to the shop:
o Get yourself a little diamond stone, and use it daily to remove burrs from your edges from any minor encounters with rocks. You don't need to resharpen the whole edge, and can leave sharpening to periodic visits to the shop until you get more ambitious.
o Get a wax iron and some wax. Reapply, and importantly, SCRAPE every few days. I'm going to disagree with whomever said it wasn't important to have wax on your skis. It's an easy task.
o Get yourself a little diamond stone, and use it daily to remove burrs from your edges from any minor encounters with rocks. You don't need to resharpen the whole edge, and can leave sharpening to periodic visits to the shop until you get more ambitious.
o Get a wax iron and some wax. Reapply, and importantly, SCRAPE every few days. I'm going to disagree with whomever said it wasn't important to have wax on your skis. It's an easy task.