Genoah77 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:52 pm

Thanks can I just prep with polar first, or is a softer wax better for the first pass?

I just prep with polar and like the results.

Welcome Fred.
If you are going from heavy to light gear the best advice I have is "flex your ankles" Have Fun!

I would skip the riser on a narrow xcd ski for sure. I was going to mount my vectors w/o risers but for what I do with the ski I decided I wanted the security of a four hole mount over a three hole mount.

If that's true he must have been pretty good. Bonna made some heavy duty metal edge skis back in the day, but mounted with Dovre bindings you would have to assume they were a lighter xc mode. I have a couple pairs of 1800s that I haven't skied in 30 years but would like to take out to the groomed xc...

Yoyoing, I've tried to respond to your PM but it seems to be stuck in the outbox. PM me your e-mail and we'll try again.

Good for you Bri, September is the hardest month to find snow.

Truth be told Gt I was, for the most part, the only witness to my feats of artistic beauty. On one occasion this past winter while doing laps in a favorite out of the way meadow a tele chic appeared. She was about my age ,60 or so, and through our conversation I found that she had about as much expe...

Artistically I hope my skiing is as good as it was last year. I brought down the house or got standing Os on all but a few runs.

Verskis doesn't Asnes have a ski that would work for you. I would go with a ski that everyone is raving about, either Asnes or Voiles. Rossi recommends there skis for the near expert skier. Maybe that's because you need to be a near expert to get them to work?? We talk about good skis being "easy to...