amazing

gonna skip those calf raises. my calves got huge from years of road and mtn bike racing. I almost couldn't get the top buckle on my Crispis buckled, the scarpas are better for big calves...

way back when I raced, we waxed kick-wax if we needed to layer 2 or more kick-waxes. the first layer got the iron. we never bought "waxing irons", we used household irons. we also always ironed the glide wax zones

I think the races are march 14 - 17. I was toying with the idea of going for weekend. I know nothing about the area, but kind of assume that the Worldcup traveling circus bought up all the hotel rooms a long time ago. does anyone have any local knowledge of the situation?

well I got in my 5 days of Tele skiing this year and they were all epic. I learned a few things: 1. my daily max is 5-6hrs of lift served skiing, about 18-20k vert per day 2. I am able to ski well for 4hrs per day by skiing parallel turns about 50% of the time 3. the last 2-3 runs of the day / last ...

I don't know if the Lynx has the same underfoot design as the Outlaw, but I recently skied the Outlaw and had no snow buildup...unlike my Freerides that have horrible buildup

please tell me the vid of the cat pulling a skier is a deep fake...or my lifelong perception of cats will be in tatters. now all I can think of is a team of sled-cats in the Iditarod...maybe 30-40 of them all harnessed up...like herding cats, but different.

btw, those old ski movies from 76 and 80 bring back so many memories. as a little kid growing up in VT and XC racing from around 1975 - 1988, XC racing = Lifestyle. from the "5 and under lollypop" races to trying to make the USSA regionals and nationals. the early days where skis were sill wooden an...

there was a short ski movie made in the late 70's called "I hope I get a purple ribbon". it was filmed at Blueberry Hill in Goshen VT. I was there and in the movie. the highlight was Bill Koch coming for 1 day. I was 7yo and being in that little film with BK was at the time a bucket list item before...

I grew up skiing in the Bill Koch ski league in VT, starting in the "5 and under" races. I have an old scrap book full of ribbons that say "Bill Koch ski league". he was definitely our hero back then. as I recall, he practically invented the skate technique. back then in the transitional years, we s...