Pinnah's Simple Kick Waxing For Touring

[lilcliffy]

- a separate cork for hard grip wax and soft wax;

And, which wax do you consider soft and hard? Red is certainly soft, but eg. Violet Special?

In the Swix line my personal dividing line is "Blue" in the V-Line-
I use a separate cork for anything softer.

[Krakus]

Snow sticking to my wax is why I crayon colder wax over my warmer wax. It works

Do you cork this colder wax layed over warmer one, or do you crayon it only?

[fisheater]

I do cork it over very lightly using a synthetic cork. I look at applying Nordic grip waxes differently than when I first started. I used to cork all Nordic grip waxes with a natural cork, I corked them until they were warm and really shined.

Now when I am applying for grip, or a thin layer of cold wax over warm wax to reduce sticking, I thick of it as spreading the wax. I don’t want to mix the waxes, I just want to spread the wax I crayoned on. I find the synthetic cork works better for this.

[The GCW]

I've been using wax now for a few or more years and when using BLUE, it has almost exclusively been Swix V30 Blue.

Lately, I've been using Rode BLUE MULTIGRADE & I think I like it better. -For grip, glide and less clumping.

It could be a difference in all the variables since no 2 situations are the same, however, I've used it enough now to mention it.

[Miloo]

I've been using wax now for a few or more years and when using BLUE, it has almost exclusively been Swix V30 Blue.

Lately, I've been using Rode BLUE MULTIGRADE & I think I like it better. -For grip, glide and less clumping.

It could be a difference in all the variables since no 2 situations are the same, however, I've used it enough now to mention it.

Seems like it's working better for grip, glide, and reducing clumping. Have you noticed any big differences in performance between the two in different snow conditions?

[The GCW]

I have not tried them side by side for a formal test comparison in different BLUE SNOW conditions.

It's possible the Swix Blue would react identically. The increased satisfaction may be imaginary. Snow conditions lately have been dreamy. -All kinds of different blue snow type conditions, from tracked, groomed on the lake, ungroomed on the lake w/3-6" of almost fresh snow , untracked, tracked with 2 -6+" of fresh over tracked & setting tracks on about 12" of fresh snow etc.

I've used Nansen and Gamme's 7 times this month with Rode BLUE MULTIGRADE and (for reference) in that time My favorite local ski area reported 42" of snow. (1 other day (in bounds using lifts) on the Falketind without adding GREEN wax)