Wax it!

[Teleman]

Two days running we have had crushable crust with an inch of powder on top......The base is rock solid....Put Red on on Sunday....thought the bones would be the ski as did Teleking....Telekid....Telewood....But Red worked to perfection....Shocked that it worked yesterday....but slow....Today went for a longer head them up a bit then down and the red disappeared....Shoulda used green and a dab of blue...but no biggie....Might drift up to a high ridge tomorrow....over by what we call Wind Gap....Some nice open snow fields up there.....(open means ten to twenty yards....Also found some wind blown powder on the lee side of North openings....Thankful for that....TM

[anemic]

Teleman, have you tried to sand the wax pocket of your XCD skis?

A necessary step for classic racing skis to keep wax thru the finishline. We clean the ski, we sand the pocket, apply binder (either klister binder of hardwax binder) to the sanded wax pocket. Works great everytime on racing skis.

[Cannatonic]

I think the various sticks and rocks add enough texture to the bases in the BC! No need for sanding.

[Rodbelan]

I took Dickie Hall advice about the purple wax... it works good for climbing in normal jan-febuary winter... Not to sticky either... For our North Quebec winter, it is pretty good. Not always, of course...

[bgregoire]

I took Dickie Hall advice about the purple wax... it works good for climbing in normal jan-febuary winter... Not to sticky either... For our North Quebec winter, it is pretty good. Not always, of course...

Am I missing out on something, who is Dickie Hall?

[Cannatonic]

I took Dickie Hall advice about the purple wax... it works good for climbing in normal jan-febuary winter... Not to sticky either... For our North Quebec winter, it is pretty good. Not always, of course...

violet is one of my favorites - on the coast a lot of snowstorms settle in right around 32 degrees. The violet works well in fresh snow around freezing. It's got a lot of traction but the new snow doesn't glom onto it. can see how it would climb well in cold weather.

Dickie Hall is some kind of tele legend that used to make people ski UP the Sherburne trail with wax skis - that's all I know from reading these boards

[Rodbelan]

I took Dickie Hall advice about the purple wax... it works good for climbing in normal jan-febuary winter... Not to sticky either... For our North Quebec winter, it is pretty good. Not always, of course...

Am I missing out on something, who is Dickie Hall?

Oh oui! Tu manques kekchose... DH c'est une légende qui existe toujours. Un des fondateurs de la NATO... Il est l'auteur de plusieurs excellents vidéos du type «How to» old school et kind of new school avec The Joy of Telemark...

Si tu passes à Qc, on se fait une soirée vidéo avec Dickie, Nils Larsen & Urmas...

[lowangle al]

I took Dickie Hall advice about the purple wax... it works good for climbing in normal jan-febuary winter... Not to sticky either... For our North Quebec winter, it is pretty good. Not always, of course...

When did Dickie say that Rod. I thought I would have heard it.

My favorite quote of his was "good snow is where you find it."

[Rodbelan]

I took Dickie Hall advice about the purple wax... it works good for climbing in normal jan-febuary winter... Not to sticky either... For our North Quebec winter, it is pretty good. Not always, of course...

When did Dickie say that Rod. I thought I would have heard it."

Do you have his vids? I have all of them... It is in «Telemark Workshop» that he talks about that. In an article of «OffPiste» magazine too: #31, decembre 2006, p29—it is available online...
http://offpistemag.com/project/issue-31-december-2006/

[lowangle al]

I have a few of his vids, haven't watched the early ones in a while though. Was it a Swix wax, I've used violet for fresh snow but don't remember ever seeing purple.

That quote I was refering to is " good skiing is where you find it". I should have known it was my signature on old Ttips.