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Friday Afternoon Birkie Update and Wax Recommendation
I’ve been saying that I thought the course was likely to be soft and mealy, but that’s sure not what we saw today. We arrived at Birkie Ridge a little before 9:00 AM, and it was quite packy, hard snow. As we climbed up there was some finer and dryer stuff, but overall it was […]
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Thursday Evening Birkie Update
I wish I had pulled out my phone and gotten a picture of the lightning when that front came through at the Birkie Ridge Trailhead around 4PM today. For a minute there it looked like Armageddon! But, as it happens, I didn’t manage to get any pictures at all today. So this update is unadorned. […]
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Wednesday Evening Birkie Update
Today was an ideal day for skiing, and completely useless for any kind of testing for Saturday’s race. The forecasted cold overnight temperatures were surpassed (we woke up to -15F), and the daytime temps appeared to top out somewhere near 25F. Jeff Tumbleson gave me a tour of various road crossings in the early afternoon, […]
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Wednesday Birkie Update
Greeting from Hayward! In a demonstration of great weather-related foresight and judgement, we hit the road Monday evening instead of Tuesday morning in order to drive in cold snowy conditions instead of terribly icy conditions. The most recent majorly disgusting eastern El-Nino driven storm was pretty easy to read, and us easterners know when we […]
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Birkie Plans!
We’re going to the Birkie! As you’d expect, we’ve started getting emails and calls about Birkie wax and Birkie skis. With Tad living in the house and reviewing race video every evening to further hone his already sharp tactical acumen, the fever has pretty well set-in around here. Here’s the program: Caldwell Sport Service for […]
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Big Mid Season Wax Testing Report
We’re just coming off a fun and successful weekend of race service at the UVM Carnival / Eastern Cup / Super Tour races in Craftsbury. The races were originally scheduled for Stowe, but moved to Craftsbury where the combination of snowmaking and infrastructure investment once again proves to be the only thing left in the […]
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Red Creek Brush Program
A couple of years ago I posted a video of a simple brush sequence, and we’ve sold a lot of brushes based on that video. It must have been good marketing. But in the last two years we’ve continued to work with different materials, and that old video is now a lie. We use other brushes […]
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Intelligrip Test
Let me begin by heaping scorn upon waxless skis of all kinds. Zero skis and various forms of “hairies” have a secure place in the pantheon of superior performance solutions; I’m not talking about them. I’m talking about the various fishscales, other no-wax patterns, and more recently, mohair skins, that promise versatile and easy solutions […]
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Craftsbury Demo Weekend
We’re just unpacking from a great weekend of demos at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. As depressing as the region-wide lack of snow may be, a captive audience of the most eager skiers in New England skiing laps of a 1KM snowmaking loop is a great situation for us! We had skate skis on the snow […]
