Need more snow

[jhetley]

Got out on the trails again this morning.  Surface starting to glaze a bit, with temperatures actually above freezing Saturday and a run by the trail groomer.  More haste, less speed, although I don't think the author of that aphorism had cross-country skiing in mind.

Took Elder Son's skis this time.  Not an actual improvement, at least in these conditions.  I think they may be designed for better skiers than me -- needed a solid "kick" to prevent retrograde motion, particularly on uphills, as opposed to my rather lazy stroke.  And they didn't seem in any hurry to turn on downhills.  I may try them on different snow, or just revert to my "generalist" Subaru skis and leave the Ferraris parked in the garage until he chooses to claim them.

Deer tracks in the snow, chickadees chattering, and a hairy woodpecker whacking away on a particularly resonant maple branch.  Making enough noise at a slow-enough cadence that at first I was looking for a pileated.

4 miles, 58 minutes

Comments

[xengar.livejournal.com]

Oh, so my difficulties with those skis weren't due to my lack of practice? Those are exactly the sorts of problems I was having, but chalked them up to my skiing roughly half as much as you. The wonders of picking up "that looks about right" at yard sales...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, they're definitely intended for groomed surfaces -- narrower than either pair of mine. That affects turning, as you have less edge leverage on a narrower ski. Must also affect "kick" with less of the fish-scale surface.

Faster, if you put in the muscle.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Of course, you're supposed to be more energetic than me. It's part of that "thirty years younger" thing.