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by albertatele
Tue Aug 20, 2024 2:47 pm
Forum: Telemark Talk Forum
Topic: Open turns in Barnett's Cross-Country Downhill?
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Re: Open turns in Barnett's Cross-Country Downhill?

I did a bit more searching, and it turns out this turn was called the "open Christiania" or sometimes "scissor Christiania" and was all the rage in the 1920s. Here is a description from Arnold Lunn's 1920 book Cross-country Ski-ing : https://archive.org/details/crosscountryskii00lunn/page/70/mode/2...