The ski & bike room
A room for the gear: racks for skis and snowboards, benches for boots and buckles, a boot rack and wall hooks for bikes when the snow has gone. The ski & bike room belongs to the residence and is there for every guest, so nothing wet ever climbs the stairs to your apartment.
Skis, boards, boots
Skrzyczne and Szczyrk Mountain Resort are across the valley. Come back, rack your skis, leave your boots and go upstairs in your socks. In summer the same wall holds the bikes for the forest roads.
Dry boots by morning
Put your boots on the rack in the evening and start the next day with dry feet. Skis, poles and helmets stay downstairs, ready for the first lift.
A story
Dry boots
Every ski day ends the same way: wet boots, cold hands, and a pair of skis nobody wants in the hallway. The room downstairs answers all three.
Rack the skis. Sit on the bench and unbuckle. Stand the boots on the boot rack and leave them there: by morning they are dry. Then climb the stairs in your socks, carrying nothing.
When the snow has gone, the same wall holds bikes on its hooks, mud and all. It is the least glamorous room in the house, and after a week you may like it best.