I really like these skis. I have just been playing around on groomed trails to start with, while figuring out the wax. Today the air temp was -17 C (2 F) and the snow surface temp measured at -23 C using an infrared thermometer. About an inch of snow fell a few days ago. Appeared to be on the line b...

It's wild to feel the difference in grip / glide with different waxes at different temperatures, isn't it! "Rubbed on some swix polar v05 over the entire ski base and then ironed it in. Let that cool and scraped it." -AKeng Just a note on using the hard Polar wax tip-to-tail. Unlike a traditional i...

Read the wiki sections on waxing and picked up some wax. First I cleaned the bases with goo gone and a scraper. Happened to already have some at home and it worked well. Leaves a little bit of an oily film, so I used some windex to remove the film. The top sheet is all scratched up on these skis but...

Thanks for sharing that.

It is amazing how far skis have come in the last few decades. The downhill skis I now use are like water skis when compared to the narrow ones we used in the 70s and 80s.

But the price ways right and they will be fun to play with....

Thanks again for all the advice. I just picked up a set of Fischer Europa 99 ST 210 cm wax skis very cheaply. Old skis that have become the E99s. They look almost identical and have the same dimensions as the newer E99s as well as the full metal edge. Not ideal but a good first wax / metal edge ski ...

You mentioned the "old" 10th Mtn skis...Which version/generation of 10th Mtn skis are you referring to? The last generation "XCD 10th Mtn" (now the Madshus Epoch) is a very soft single-cambered touring ski- only available with a waxless-scaled base. This ski is VERY slow as a XC ski- especially on ...

Thanks for the responses. The terrain varies wildly up here. There are some serious hardcore mountains, but I have the AT setup for that. What I am looking for in this set of skis is travel over some of the tamer ground. For example the rolling hills that are common in some of the river valleys. The...

Thanks for all the advice.

Just starting to get waxing figured because of my skate skis. So a set of waxed bases would be fine.

Let me see what I can pick up used with metal edges to start with.

One more question: how many of you us metal edged waxed skis for this type of skiing?
If I can get a good deal on a used set that are waxed bases would you buy them?

Thanks for the advice. I wondered about speed control. While the terrain is rolling you come across an occasional step section on a narrow trail. Since I am hardly interested in racing, It seems like metal edges and a snow plow could be a good way to control speed on rough narrow trails. Sometime th...