Does cross country skiing work?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > The Great Outdoors > Does cross country skiing work?

Free Market Mambo: Jul 26, 2010; by Lowtax

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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Free Market Mambo: Jul 26, 2010; by Lowtax

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'.

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 : |

Do what Lil Jon do, Get Low.

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