It's started!

[Spartan613]

Hopefully a sign of a good season.

[Ed Huesers]

Post by Spartan613
Hopefully a sign of a good season.

The end of a good season in the north:
http://www.grandshelters.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=167
Cheers,

Ed Huesers
Http://www.grandshelters.com

[Roger Caffin]

Hi Ed
Having that much snow is disgraceful!

Hum - frozen skins and ice build-up on the pulk. Hadn't thought of that one!

Cheers
Roger

[Ed Huesers]

Post by Roger Caffin
Hi Ed

Hey Roger,

Post by Roger Caffin
Having that much snow is disgraceful!

Yep, sure is... I was hating it, for sure. Not.

Post by Roger Caffin
Hum - frozen skins and ice build-up on the pulk. Hadn't thought of that one!

Yeah, the skins are particularily bad, I usually experience it at
least once in the spring conditions. It happens when the sun melts the
surface of a new dump of cold snow. The sun gets rather hot come April
at the 10,000 ft. elevation we ski at.
The worst conditions is crossing a lake that has water in the snow
and getting the skins compeletly soaked. When they freeze up in the
shadows of the woods behind the lake, they can be scraped and most of
the ice will come off but the skin is still frozen inside and it still
clumbs/loads up with snow. I've had foot tall clumbs under my skis many
years ago.
Waxing the skins helps a lot though. It's a hard wax (harder than
parafin) and it still lets the hairs on the skins flex up for traction.
Yep, you should have been here Roger,

Ed Huesers
Http://www.grandshelters.com




P.S. This thread ought to draw him.
Cheers back,

[Roger Caffin]

Hi Ed

Yeah, the skins are particularily bad, I usually experience it at least
once in the spring conditions. It happens when the sun melts the surface
of a new dump of cold snow.

Here in Oz we mainly use wax-less skis for touring, with a fish-scale
pattern of some sort. I've known them ball up whn transitioning, but if I
have used a silicone release agent (hard to get) or a silicone wax on the
grip section it usually flakes off fairly easily.

Yep, you should have been here Roger,

I know... :-)

Cheers
Roger

[Ed Huesers]

Roger Caffin wrote:
Morning Roger,

Post by Roger Caffin
Here in Oz we mainly use wax-less skis for touring, with a fish-scale
pattern of some sort. I've known them ball up whn transitioning, but if I
have used a silicone release agent (hard to get) or a silicone wax on the
grip section it usually flakes off fairly easily.

I used waxless skis some years ago and settled in on wax skis at that
time. I liked how the wax skis went faster downhill.
Now, I use skins because of the steep sections in powder and also for
pulling the pulk. I miss the free glide of the wax but it's nice being
able to go up steep and it's also nice not slipping backwards when
pulling a pulk.

Post by Roger Caffin

Post by Ed Huesers
Yep, you should have been here Roger,

I know... :-)

Looks like it'll be a Colorado trip next season.
Whooo Hooo!

Ed Huesers
http://www.grandshelters.com