I usually go without rods, keeping the children in hands. It usually works out rather well, I can keep up the speed with the rest of the family even when the youngest doesn't want to move her legs at all ... though, probably a rope to hold on would be preferable. In the uphills and downhills I go behind and push/hold.

I can't understand today how I managed to cope two years ago ... some days I would carry skis for all of us from home, pick up the children in the kinder garden, take the bus, go skiing, the children were 2 and 5 by them. The oldest needs assistance down the hills, often there are turns also, so I would have to go down the hill with one child, run up again to pick up the other, and then down with the other. This procedure involves leaving a two year old alone in the skiing track for several minutes ... she was fine with it, but other skiers passing by and seeing a two-year old skier standing completely alone in the forest was often mildly shocked.