One ski to rule them all! A one ski quiver for all disciplines

[mikael.oh]

I like the vibe of simplicity, don’t let the idiots get you down! You skied uphill in the video and immediately started skiing down, did you not need skins to go up?

I recorded the whole 5km classic part and as the recording hit 30 minutes as I was reaching the top of the hill, the camera stopped recording. Luckily I checked it before starting the downhill part. The only thing the camera missed was me removing the 30mm mohair x-skins and lacing my boots up much tighter.

Thanks for the support! I'm loving this journey I'm on with this gear.

About to shake things up even more tomorrow. Heading to have the Gammes steel scraped Kuzmin style. Or maybe more like Kuzmin inspired. I believe this guy made his own type of steel scraper.

Basically you use a sharp steel scraper to scrape away the stone grind that pretty much all skis have from new. Then you polish the base at high RPMs and are left with just smooth plastic, and that gives you really good glide without the need to use any kind of wax. After the initial scraping away of the stone grind you may be able to go a whole season without doing anything else to your bases, and when you do feel it's time to freshen them up, it only takes a few minutes and removes less material than a stone grind does..
And in the meantime, you have really good glide without having to do anything to your skis at all. It wont rival the very best fluoride powders and that like, but who needs that level? I just wanna ski, so this will be perfect.

[mikael.oh]

I salute your Gamme endeavours OP!

Now waiting impatiently to see you rock that on a proper topptur

Thanks, and me too! It's just that there's been almost no snow anywhere close to Oslo so far.
The only place it's snowing is Finse, and there it's been dumping every single day for months now with no break, so no point in going there for a while yet. I need to see if I'm gonna enjoy myself.

I need to find some new ski buddies as well. The guy I've been skiing with since my comeback late last spring just moved North, and since I hadn't skied downhill for years before my comeback, all my old ski buddies are either dead, still living in Chamonix, or spread out all over the world.

I don't have a car either, so that complicates things. Probably the next step is waiting for weather windows in Finse and then heading there for weekends, living out of a tent, and touring there.
I do want to do stuff in Jotunheimen as well, but there's almost no snow there either, is there?

Meanwhile, I have a shitload of XC training to do if I'm gonma get in shape for that 150km in a day in April.

[connyro]

I like the vibe of simplicity, don’t let the idiots get you down! You skied uphill in the video and immediately started skiing down, did you not need skins to go up?

First post here and you call people idiots. From what I understand, the most intelligent people go on a brand new forum and lead with name calling, so kudos for that. I can't wait to see what else you have to contribute!
@mikael.oh where's your outrage with this guy for calling random strangers "idiots" in your thread? Funny how that doesn't seem to bother you.

[randoskier]

I salute your Gamme endeavours OP!

Now waiting impatiently to see you rock that on a proper topptur

Thanks, and me too! It's just that there's been almost no snow anywhere close to Oslo so far.
The only place it's snowing is Finse, and there it's been dumping every single day for months now with no break, so no point in going there for a while yet. I need to see if I'm gonna enjoy myself.

I need to find some new ski buddies as well. The guy I've been skiing with since my comeback late last spring just moved North, and since I hadn't skied downhill for years before my comeback, all my old ski buddies are either dead, still living in Chamonix, or spread out all over the world.

I don't have a car either, so that complicates things. Probably the next step is waiting for weather windows in Finse and then heading there for weekends, living out of a tent, and touring there.
I do want to do stuff in Jotunheimen as well, but there's almost no snow there either, is there?

Meanwhile, I have a shitload of XC training to do if I'm gonma get in shape for that 150km in a day in April.

No Car? Then maybe take the sleeper train up the Nordland Railway, get off at Lønsdal staion- just north of the polar circle. There is a DNT Cabin (Lønsstua) that is only a five minute walk down the dirt road from the station (you can ski it but they plow it and you have drainage ditch on each side. The Saltfjellet Hotel a nice oldie in charming disrepair is still open, we used to buy beer there and hang out with the manager but it changed hands since.

You would be right on the Saltfjellet and have endless skiing possibilities there. I heard from our friend there last week, they have tons of snow.

https://ut.no/hytte/101024/lnsstua

webcam E6 https://www.vegvesen.no/trafikkinformas ... vis/891042
Alternatively you could fly Norwegian to Bodo and take the train south to the same station.

PS If you go, bring your own food, the nearest market is a gas station / tourist center on the E6, not so easy to hitchhike to- or you can take the train a few stops to Rokland (CoOp Super there) but only a few trains a day in each direction. You could possibly glom a ride to the store and back with weekend lodgers there because some come by car and park 200m from the cabin.It actually has a fridge since it on the grid. It's a nice cabin (actually two cabins) and you don't have to melt snow, can ski to the spring about 220m.

[TheMusher]

I salute your Gamme endeavours OP!

Now waiting impatiently to see you rock that on a proper topptur

Thanks, and me too! It's just that there's been almost no snow anywhere close to Oslo so far.
The only place it's snowing is Finse, and there it's been dumping every single day for months now with no break, so no point in going there for a while yet. I need to see if I'm gonna enjoy myself.

You know what.. you're completely right. Alpine snow conditions are horribly unstable these days.

Was struck by this small-scale avalanche last weekend in Venabygdsfjell/Ringebu near Rondane (see pic). Was XC skiing in fairly flat terrain, but honestly can't recall ever having encountered such unstable layered conditions.

Multiple fatal avalanches in the Alps also this weekend..

So let me correct myself: I'm waiting patiently for this

Stay safe everyone.

[randoskier]

I salute your Gamme endeavours OP!

Now waiting impatiently to see you rock that on a proper topptur

Thanks, and me too! It's just that there's been almost no snow anywhere close to Oslo so far.
The only place it's snowing is Finse, and there it's been dumping every single day for months now with no break, so no point in going there for a while yet. I need to see if I'm gonna enjoy myself.

You know what.. you're completely right. Alpine snow conditions are horribly unstable these days.

Was struck by this small-scale avalanche last weekend in Venabygdsfjell/Ringebu near Rondane (see pic). Was XC skiing in fairly flat terrain, but honestly can't recall ever having encountered such unstable layered conditions.

Multiple fatal avalanches in the Alps also this weekend..

So let me correct myself: I'm waiting patiently for this

Stay safe everyone.

I salute your Gamme endeavours OP!

Now waiting impatiently to see you rock that on a proper topptur

Thanks, and me too! It's just that there's been almost no snow anywhere close to Oslo so far.
The only place it's snowing is Finse, and there it's been dumping every single day for months now with no break, so no point in going there for a while yet. I need to see if I'm gonna enjoy myself.

You know what.. you're completely right. Alpine snow conditions are horribly unstable these days.

Was struck by this small-scale avalanche last weekend in Venabygdsfjell/Ringebu near Rondane (see pic). Was XC skiing in fairly flat terrain, but honestly can't recall ever having encountered such unstable layered conditions.


Multiple fatal avalanches in the Alps also this weekend..

So let me correct myself: I'm waiting patiently for this

Stay safe everyone.

The Dolomites are pretty dry here crappy year, but the Alps on the Austrian and Swiss borders got pounded recently and caused the avalanches you mentioned. The conditions at my local Nordic area- the Asiago Plateau (about 1400m) are awful, wet some days crust the rest, the main part of the plateau is barren. Soelden had a big in-bounds avalanche.

Happy it is snowing in Nord Trondelag right before our first trip up north this year. Friends further north (Rokland say loads of snow there).

Norway has a great avalanche map shows all declenchment zones and potential run out zones, it is also very conservative, if you talk to some people who have farms in the run out zones there has not been an avalanche reaching them in the last 200 years sometimes...but Galtur thought so too.

A while back in-bounds at Val Senales (where they filmed the Everest movie)-

[Stephen]

Was struck by this small-scale avalanche last weekend in Venabygdsfjell/Ringebu near Rondane (see pic). Was XC skiing in fairly flat terrain, but honestly can't recall ever having encountered such unstable layered conditions.

@TheMusher, Did this avalanche happen while you were there, or did you come across it, after the fact?
How steep was the slope that slid?

[TheMusher]

Hey @Stephen

It struck me as I passed, and half-burried my pulk and skis. The dogs and I stayed just clear.

The photo is slightly misleading. It was only a 4-5 meters high very steep (45+ deg) hill that slid.

Nevertheless, served as a not-so-friendly reminder that once it strikes, I'm fully at the mercy of the elements..

We heard rumblings in the snow under us every 10th minute that trip.

[AdamA]

Bringing this one back up. Reread it. Super entertaining for a number of reasons. A question for you OP. You use pretty short skis. I'm interested. After a year, are you still enjoying your approach? If I wanted to try something similar, at 6'5'', would you recommend the 200s?

[Lhartley]

Lmao, x-nips

How long have these Lord of The Flies situations been happening on this page? Must be a Lotta great reads