I have Rossi skate boots like you describe. The shop had one of those little ovens and they put em in there for 20 or so then I put them on with a 2x4 under the balls of my feet until they cooled. ...

Tips and tails usually aren't sintered but take hot wax well and as said above you can monitor by looking for oxidation of the base and wax accordingly. Usually lasts a season. The scales 'surface'...

I agree on the above where you learn the technique/form well enough you can do it slow. My buddy who got me into it always stressed learning how to do it right and I agree and of the sort that...

It is and if it falls on packed powder with a crust and there is a good chance of it freezing quickly you can have a surface you won't forget for the rest of your SiSSy Stikkin endeavors. I had it...

I would be weary of drying out my bases using anything other than hot wax. If you aren't using heat to penetrate (open up the base to get the wax in there) then there must be some kind of 'catalyst'...

Will do and thanks for your grooming and working with mgmt!

Hey IoGrizWa... might the ranch c get groomed? Good folks out there and their support of the CX racing is pretty coo

Yeah, there are many ways to go about it but in my experience, crappy technique/form is harder to unlearn than learning the right way from the get-go. Work smarter not harder..?

Lessons are key for both styles. The slightest 'off' technique kinda sucks. We have an awesome local Nordic club and with a very low yearly fee, you can get up to 4 or so lessons a year. The...

Considering smoking the whole body, I completely agree and it seems to strengthen the joints as well. Best bang for the BodyHeadBuck IMO. The THC cocktail is kinda coo too.

Yup, 1,000s of them. The Midwest seems to be the geographical hotspot in the US. Have no experience with brain surgery so I've never vetted world Utube shitaqua.

^^^^I forgot to add that I use the Toko DLC black wax for the prep. It's also pretty cheap and easy

So true BCmtnHound, and having crappy bases promotes crappy technique. I run into folks that think it's a waste of time to wax often because....well you scrape it all off so why bother or they don't...

When I lived in FoCo I thought Eldora was expensive so I paid my $15/yr to the Medicine Bow Nordic Club and just hit Happy Jack. Awesome trail network and a mellow/casual WY type of gig(think...

Coo. We can get an early crust up in the high meadows when a HP system parks itself over us accompanied by an inversion. It was looking that was going to happen but luckily it might not. I'd...

Hey!

Are any of the Wasatch crust cruises you mention good in the spring? I am passing through in March and what you describe sounds like neat-o funness, or at least a portion of one...that is...

It isn't so much that it is ghey, but the SnowRoadies have a way of bringing 'Fruit of the Loom' factor into it if'n you know what I mean.

Yeah, crust cruising fukkin rocks! When I lived in Flag...