Nice video! The points of using plastic boots on multi-day tours seem valid. Especially the ease of drying inner shoes, but also a wide range of boots feels liberating for finding a good fit. Old-school Finnish way is hiking and ski touring with rubber boots, e.g. Nokia Naali. Winter models have rem...

Depends quite a lot on terrain and snow… I refrained from exploring a fresh snowmobile track though a ravine last week because there were steep falls where you would have had to side step, if deciding to turn back. The ravine had 50+ cm powder besides the track, where tails and tips of my XC skis go...

Yesterday I was skiing an even lighter setup, old Atomic race beta XC skis and SNS Pilot sneakers. At the end of a long day trip, I skied down a 1 km toboccan piste of 5 and 15 degrees varying steepness for fun. I could link parallel turns most of the way, but telemark turns were out of question. At...

Here is a video clip from last Saturday. I was skiing FTX’s and Alfa Guards. That is the middle one of three runs at the spot (image below). IMG_2408.jpeg In the first run, it was cool to move from XC to downhill skiing without a transition. The last run was coolest. It was longest and had best snow...

A few core principles: -The whole thing is based on rotation of the hip flexor. Your big toe could be thought of as a pivot point. If you are sweeping out the heels or buckling your knees, you're not rotating properly. -Pressuring the balls of the feet and toes puts pressure on the tips of the skis...

Sondre Norheim introduced the Telemark turn to Norwegian wider public in 1868 , when he participated the very first national skiing competition in Oslo (then called Christiania). Btw. his journey there included some XC, too, because he and two other competitors skied to Oslo from their home village...

the T turn goes back to the mid 1800s. I doubt that there was any special jumping gear, people just had skis. Sondre Nordheim not only developed the technique to turn skis, he also was supposedly the first to make skis with sidecut. I also think that he was the first to promote the idea of making t...

"Telemark originated on "light" gear, serving the purpose of going downhill on nordic gear." I invite correction if I'm mistaken, but as I recall the turn was a technique innovated used by Sondre Norheim as a more stable means of landing a nordic jump. It went on to be used in alpine regions as wel...

Would love to try both lengths- but, will probably get 180 if I buy a Nosi... Well…I love Nosi skiing so much that I ordered they in 180 cm length too (non-xplore version). Then I will know :) I believe that our AT setups will see less and less use in the future. We have atleast Europe’s - if not w...

Lhartley FYI a quote from an old thread Skiing with unbuckled boots, or in this case, in walk mode, is a solid and classic instructional technique. Teaches balance and wt. distribution. Try that and also without poles. Good for skill development, and as mentioned, similar to skiing in leather boots.