Rock skis

When skiing on rock skis, the following things don't bother you:
1) skiing on sanded/salted roads
2) crossing bare pavement
3) lightly snow-covered concrete sidewalks

I skied to work today, it was quite nice.

Cheers,
Brian

When skiing on rock skis, the following things don't bother you:
1) skiing on sanded/salted roads
2) crossing bare pavement
3) lightly snow-covered concrete sidewalks

I skied to work today, it was quite nice.

Cheers,
Brian

Last amost snowless season, a few buddies and I skied some partially covered
trails. The method was to ski a hundred meters or so, then when arriving at
bare ground, break into a full sprint, running over to the next section of
snow. It's heck on skis, but we had a blast !

John Wilke
Milwaukee

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:54:39 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

When skiing on rock skis, the following things don't bother you:
1) skiing on sanded/salted roads
2) crossing bare pavement
3) lightly snow-covered concrete sidewalks

I skied to work today, it was quite nice.

Cheers,
Brian

Those are beyond rock skis. Rock skis have scars but the base is not totally
ruined. You sir, have summer skis. g.

Ben

My opinion on this: skiing is more important than the skis.

(J999w) wrote in message ...
When skiing on rock skis, the following things don't bother you:
1) skiing on sanded/salted roads
2) crossing bare pavement
3) lightly snow-covered concrete sidewalks

I skied to work today, it was quite nice.

Cheers,
Brian

Last amost snowless season, a few buddies and I skied some partially covered
trails. The method was to ski a hundred meters or so, then when arriving at
bare ground, break into a full sprint, running over to the next section of
snow. It's heck on skis, but we had a blast !

John Wilke
Milwaukee

In article , Ben Kaufman wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:54:39 +0000 (UTC), wrote:
Those are beyond rock skis. Rock skis have scars but the base is not totally
ruined. You sir, have summer skis. g.

Really, the skiing is pretty good on the city streets right now. 99%
of my ski to work is on well snow-covered side-streets. Even though
they've been plowed, there is still good snow coverage. Only the
major roads have sand/salt/asphalt and I only have 5 crossings like
that on my 2-mile route. It is surprisingly good skiing - and a lot
of fun!

Cheers,
Brian

Hey, don't take your rock skis for granite :-)

Actually, today my good skis met some granite. Coming down a little
hill with what looked like good snow cover, it turned out that a little
bump in the snow was a granite rock. There was a sickening sound and
a sickening feeling.
Later I returned to the rock and noticed curled plastic shavings. Ouch,
that's not very gneiss :-)

--

David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
email:
WWW pages: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/

The worst abuse of rock skis I have ever seen was when the local ski club
decided to put a float in the summer parade for our regatta. We even
managed to get "snow" for the float from an scraping from an arena that has
a summer hockey camp. Most of the junior team skied the parade on roller
skis (doing circles around the neighbouring floats), but a couple of
dedicated masters ran the whole parade in their old rock skis. I didn't ask
what wax they used, but it didn't seem to give very good glide on asphalt
although the kick was phenominal.

Scott Elliot
http://www3.telus.net/selliot/

Awesome; went to a basketball game the other night; sat quartzite. Couldn't
see schist.

--
Raider Rick
"Mine augens have seen the glory..."

"David Dermott" wrote in message
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Hey, don't take your rock skis for granite :-)

Actually, today my good skis met some granite. Coming down a little
hill with what looked like good snow cover, it turned out that a little
bump in the snow was a granite rock. There was a sickening sound and
a sickening feeling.
Later I returned to the rock and noticed curled plastic shavings. Ouch,
that's not very gneiss :-)

--

David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
email:
WWW pages: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dermott/

Scott,

If we want to compare rock ski stories...

I don't think many stories will beat the fact that a group of friends
and I (one year it was 43 of us) did the Bay to Breakers footrace (12
km. distance) in San Francisco on skis - 3 years in a row back in the
mid-80's. Asphalt does not glide well, but if you find a road with
LOTS of oil leakage from cars down the middle, you can actually kick
and glide. Participating in a race with 80,000+ other "competitors"
is a unique experience, especially when you are the only ones skiing
it.

AND, I'm still using a couple of pair of those skis as rock skis early
in the season. They work great.

Mark

"Scott Elliot" wrote in message news:MVZTb.114$213.84@edtnps89...
The worst abuse of rock skis I have ever seen was when the local ski club
decided to put a float in the summer parade for our regatta. We even
managed to get "snow" for the float from an scraping from an arena that has
a summer hockey camp. Most of the junior team skied the parade on roller
skis (doing circles around the neighbouring floats), but a couple of
dedicated masters ran the whole parade in their old rock skis. I didn't ask
what wax they used, but it didn't seem to give very good glide on asphalt
although the kick was phenominal.

Scott Elliot
http://www3.telus.net/selliot/