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My arms are tired. I just skiied 3 miles in the cloudy Wisconsin hinterlands. I'm asking: is cross country skiing an effective mode of transit in the woods?
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Jan 26, 2016 02:28
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It's faster than running and one can last longer distances when the trails are groomed and you've had training. If you're putzing around ungroomed areas it's probably a bit better than snowshoeing.
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Jan 26, 2016 04:01
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Snow is a funny thing, there's like a hundred different kinds of it. So there are a hundred or so skiing setups you could employ, and getting it wrong could mean painful travel. Virgin unconsolidated snow, on the other hand, while best traveled with any wide/short ski (if slopes are mild and vegetation not dense) or snowshoe (other cases), is always really hard unless you're going down a steep hill you ascended with a lift. It beats walking in shoes, that's about it.
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Jan 26, 2016 05:52
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meselfs posted:Snow is a funny thing, there's like a hundred different kinds of it. So there are a hundred or so skiing setups you could employ, and getting it wrong could mean painful travel. On the other end of the spectrum, late season when the snow is old and hard enough to support skis, you can zoom around whole areas in a fraction of time of any other season. e- I like this vid better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z6q_Ix3kWI Epitope fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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Jan 26, 2016 06:33
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Diff'rent skis for diff'rent needs. On windblown snow/ice fields a pair of skinny skis will make life nice, and in powdery woods, something a bit wider and shorter will let you get around. There's huge variation in ski design of indigenous peoples for this very reason. Last night for exercise I went around a local ski track in a waxless mountain cross country set-up with plastic boots and was disheartened by how slowly I moved compared to other skiiers, but in ungroomed snow or varying conditions, I would have had a big advantage.
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Jan 26, 2016 11:27
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I've skied before, but I found it was completely impossible to stop while cross-country skiing. The lack of the support you'd get with a downhill ski setup made my strategy for going down a hill 'identify a safe place to fly into the snow'. Oh and of course, make sure your buddy is done falling over first. If your strategy is 'yodel and sing and yell like an idiot the whole time', I tried that already : |
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Mar 11, 2016 02:31
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BRJohnson posted:I've skied before, but I found it was completely impossible to stop while cross-country skiing. The lack of the support you'd get with a downhill ski setup made my strategy for going down a hill 'identify a safe place to fly into the snow'. Do what Lil Jon do, Get Low.
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Mar 11, 2016 14:08
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Cross country skiing owns hard. Especially on Lake Superior's North Shore.
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Mar 12, 2016 17:54
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Mar 17, 2016 14:41
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Free Market Mambo posted:Diff'rent skis for diff'rent needs. On windblown snow/ice fields a pair of skinny skis will make life nice, and in powdery woods, something a bit wider and shorter will let you get around. There's huge variation in ski design of indigenous peoples for this very reason. knowing that you give tours of mountains in finland makes me literally write down your advice about skiing, molotov cocktails, shooting a mosin, or alcoholism
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Mar 19, 2016 08:14
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Free Market Mambo posted:Diff'rent skis for diff'rent needs. On windblown snow/ice fields a pair of skinny skis will make life nice, and in powdery woods, something a bit wider and shorter will let you get around. There's huge variation in ski design of indigenous peoples for this very reason. To elaborate, there's basically a huge spectrum of gear for different terrain/conditions. For instance, here is basically the opposite of a XC ski while still being a ski, and definitely intended for backcountry travel: http://us-store.altaiskis.com/product/hok-ski/ (Pretty sure those are gonna be the worst of all worlds but I have no idea. They're probably nice for deep snow in woods, but in any kind of open country a dedicated AT setup would probably be more fun.) Then there's ridiculous specialty poo poo like this, which is for randonee nerds. If you want to pretend to be Killian Jornet, buy these: http://www.sportiva.com/products/ski/skis/rsr and these http://www.sportiva.com/products/ski/boots/stratos-cube. As far as proper XC goes, the gear has become really specialized to suit immaculately groomed and prepped courses, and not really suited to the backwoods conditions the (Norwegian) originators used to ski. It's pretty impractical unless you've got a XC ski area nearby, or a whole bunch of flat, hard spring snow lying around. While we're nerding out, have some videos of traditional skiing. Completely badass all the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKtKPCv8_uc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewW6-nONcEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDY-aUru_bs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uCTNZNPMC0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXdbqa65GhI And some truly excellent cross-country skiing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH-zVXN8OMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5HiyXSJww XC urban for lyf *PUNCH* fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Apr 3, 2016 02:04
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That last video was an awesome spoof of the Downhill style videos of it.
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Apr 3, 2016 07:34
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