I have found that the xc boots are difficult to find. I have looked for boots for my Rossi xc skis and Look contact bindings. I even thought about replacing the bindings with a matching boot and binding because getting the boot is impossible.
... never heard of look contact system/bindings - some googling did come up with a visual... definitely different.I have found that the xc boots are difficult to find. I have looked for boots for my Rossi xc skis and Look contact bindings. I even thought about replacing the bindings with a matching boot and binding because getting the boot is impossible.
I picked up a pair of these along with boots and poles at Thanksgiving time. Sadly, we haven't had enough snow on the Front Range to use them but I'm up in Vail this week. My family's mountain house is right on the groomed golf course so I just got out for only my second nordict ski in my adult life and third ever. I'm happy to say I didn't fall, even when I had Ginzi leashed to my wrist. Hope to get out for a bit of a longer ski tomorrow, perhaps without the doggo so I can go longer and try some of the bigger hills on the course.
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Me too. Such a fun, easy on the joints, full body workout!Day 2 on Nordic today. It was lovely! I wish I lived somewhere where enough snow to do this was reliable.
XC and photography are like a glass of vino and a chunk of dark chocolate! Essentially compatible!...My neighborhood got a rare 12" from the nor'easter. This time I prepared, put a warm air/snow temp wax, hot wax on the Fischer S-bound 78 sintered tip and tail sections and a paste wax on the fish scale center. Skied from the front door last night on the rolling hills of the neighborhood, skiing across empty streets, nobody around for a need to mask up and distance from! I ventured (trespassed), thru a few properties, came across a crazy Frank Furness looking seemingly deserted old cottage in the woods that I never knew existed belonging to and behind a beautiful old mansion higher on the hillside. My imagination ran wild with scenarios of what may've taken place there in the early 20th century! I should've taken a pix to post here...
Has all the makings of a horror film right there.
XC and photography are like a glass of vino and a chunk of dark chocolate! Essentially compatible!
Okie Dokie!
You would be the absolutely perfect person - especially since California sunshine - to try a pet notion of mine.
You may be aware of UV-curable long-term base treatments like DPS Phantom or Gigaglide. You may also be aware that most of the purely alpine lot have been mixed in their reviews - there is a marginal gain over Ptex but no one is really sure how much.
My notion is that these formulations absolutely need to be tried on old XC woodies like yours.