"Straight-tracking, stable, and reassuringly heavy?"

That sounds exactly like those Asnes MT65 USGI surplus skis from Colemans. The more things change, the more they stay the same

But seriously, that is fantastic.

Hello guys, I search a lot but still dont have enough answers. I am 187cm tall 76kg. I live in Slovakia and terrain I prefer is mostly uphill from valley to some mountain ridge and than downhill, of course the ridge is often wavy, and mostly off track. The snow condition are variable sometimes powd...

LOOOVE those huge raised tips on those ancient skis. Ancient skiers seemed to almost worship a ski tip designed for backcountry snow- you can see it in the way they overemphasized the ski tips in their drawings. I wonder if those narrow, raised tips are better at breaking through breakable crust th...

This is amazing! They found the second ski! Weird reverse camber on those skis. But probably going tip-to-tail with Elk Fat Polar. They may have lost some of their camber due to the way they were stored the past 1300 years. I wonder if they published the exact dimensions of the skis anywhere. It mi...

Since posting the question, I bought the TN59 in 200. So now I have both 195 and 200's. So its not a matter of availability, but usefulness. I would sell it probably to preorder a Ingstad or Nansen. I'm not even entirely sure what I'll be doing. There's a nice flat unplowed road that I ski, but I w...

Who is afraid of klister? Apparently it's not just skiers, the postal service is too. destroyedklister.png Lesson learned: do not order klister or other liquid wax products from Europe. To their credit, SnowInn gave me a refund. I have had good luck buying other things from them before, and would no...

Thanks for that. I hadn't considered the Gamme because I assumed it was a burly expedition-type ski -- I have a pair of O.G. Ingstads for that -- and I'm looking for a light & lively ski for use on local ungroomed trails, linking a turn or two where possible. I currently use a pair of decades-old A...

The camber and flex of my Åsnes USGI surplus skis feels just like that of Woodserson's MT51 skis, which is no surprise given the MT65 and the MT51 are in the same family. Double camber, very stiff in the middle of the ski, with decent flex in the front 1/4 of the ski. Tails are fairly stiff, too. Th...

Oh man! I have syringes! You should have let me know I would've driven them over. I don't know how liquid the glue you are using is though, maybe too thick. Are you going to try to the put the old plastic tip back on? The glue is quite gooey, and fairly easy to smear around with the paperclip. Not ...

With the snow on Mt Washington, I could not wait any longer. I just had to fix the broken tip on those rescue E99 skis. I used a bent paperclip to jam polyurethane wood glue as far into the cracks as I could. PXL_20211001_170005306.jpg Then I had the ski tip clamped for a while. First with paper tow...