cross country skiing?

[roastelk]

heh, I think i may become a knuckle dragging two planker this year. I'm thinking of taking up cross country skiing this winter....and I'm still keeping the old snowboard for the mountains, not that I wont take skies with me to try and learn telemark.

anyways..equipment wise, does any one on here know what to look for in a pair of cross country skis, as Im likley going to be looking for used stuff.

im actually really exited right now...we're soposed to get a good snowfall tonight here in E-town, and the local ski hills have all started their snow making equipment

[Dingfod]

I used to X-C ski when I lived in Utah, no telemarking, just skiing on groomed trails at Brighton, Utah. I would dress in layers for the -10:degrees:F temperature but find myself stripped down to a t-shirt within a half hour on sunny days, it was that good of a workout. I miss it. Oh, I've tried to X-C ski here in Oklahoma, but the snow is too damn sticky.

[roastelk]

eh ding fod if your finding the snow too sticky to ski you need a difernt wax, even I know that one. got dozen differnt types just for my snowbard...and -10F dosnt even make me blink.

I did actaully ski at one point, but not in the last 14 years

[Dingfod]

I have waxless skis. However, I did buy a glide wax, a liquid wax to apply to make them slide better. But, when it's about 32:degrees:F out, the snow is just not that good for Nordic skiing.

[roastelk]

double edit

[California Tanker]

im actually really exited right now...we're soposed to get a good snowfall tonight here in E-town, and the local ski hills have all started their snow making equipment

E-Town? As in next to Ft Knox?

NTM

[Julie]

yummmm big white....Man I miss snowboarding.

Have you been up to big white? OMG the condos there! It's gone from a dinky ski hill to major high end condos! Can't sya I blame them, its the most beautiful of all the BC skiing areas!

As for x-country skiing...only did it once. I like snow shoeing a lot more than x-country skiing. Shit loads of trails up there too.

[Ari]

There are these magical devices that have chairs, they take all the boring parts out of skiing and leave only the fun stuff, maybe you have heard of them. ;)

I've always wanted to try cross country

[roastelk]

E-Town? As in next to Ft Knox?



No, i didnt know there actaually was a real E-town. up here E-town is more a local slang than anything.........ie E-town is Edmonton, Calgary is cow-town, toontown is saskatoon...etc

yummmm big white....Man I miss snowboarding.

Have you been up to big white? OMG the condos there! It's gone from a dinky ski hill to major high end condos! Can't sya I blame them, its the most beautiful of all the BC skiing areas!

as for big white Ive been thier quite few times, i love it up there...My dad is really kicking himself though. He bought a condo up in there in the early 80s for 20 grand...that same place is probably woth 300-400 grand by now, he also sold it in the early 80s and never bought anything else

[Julie]

*nods* toontown is in Winterpeg.

And ohhh I can only imagine how much he's kicking himself.

Hell I'm kicking myself for not buying a condo 8 years ago for 150 grand.

[dendrast]

Roastelk - if you are looking for equipment, the MEC sometimes has equipment exchanges, maybe check their website. I like to haunt used stuff stores, and pick up likely looking stuff cheap (like $5). I only by the boards and poles, and have a supply of bindings I like which fit a quality pair of boots. On hand right now I have an old fashioned pair of steel-edged boards from the 60s for deep powder, a pair of heavily cambered and side-cut Karhus (actually I did buy these new) for telemark and bush turing (my favourite activity), a pair of real beaters for in the fall when there really isn't enough snow yet (how does one best wax for rocks and mud?), and a pair of long, staight 80s style fibreglass skis for spring skiing on the lake. When we go, we try to make a day of it. Pack a lunch, a wineskin, maybe a doob or two and take off into the bush with the dogs. Piss on that club skiing bullshit, get out there into the big lonely.