Does skating absolutely require groomed trails?
On Nov 21, 5:41*pm, "outsideinmi"
wrote:
absolutely yes, done it nearly every year on our local golf course out my
door.
400 yard long fairway. *first pass 4 minutes slooooooow. *second pass, 3:45,
third pass, 3:30, until i've packed it myself enough to skate on it fairly
well. *self grooming!!!
There is a lore story that a top Russian nordic skier groomed his own
skating trails by dragging a truck tire behind him. In my garrison
town they used to send in a platoon skiing three abreast to groom -
the result was skate-able to an extent (this is where kids in my town
learned skating in the mid 80s).
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