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What are typical low end temperatures for XC?
On Jan 19, 10:05*pm, DirtRoadie wrote:
OK, maybe this is a silly question, but while I live in an area with Just curious. TIA DR When it gets cold, as others have remarked, classic is more fun and less work than skating. We have had cold here for almost a week - down to minus 20 F at night with daytime highs from minus 5F to minus 15F (the same general area as where the Pepsi Chalenge was cancelled because of predicted wind chill in the area of minus 45 - 50F)....and have classic skied every day in brilliant sunshine. If you can go with others and change lead, the tracks are actually fast (and because I am lazy am on blue glide wax) and kick of course is wonderful - I'm a big fan of Swix Polar on these days. Our weather is always so changeable that I'm not sure what would be "typical"; we regularly ski in up to 40F and in January often in below zero F. Personally, if it's below 10 F I prefer classic to the push required for slow skating. The cold snow makes skating a drag, regardless of glide wax. Burgess |
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What are typical low end temperatures for XC?
On Jan 21, 6:04 am, polarpoler wrote:
On Jan 19, 10:05 pm, DirtRoadie wrote: OK, maybe this is a silly question, but while I live in an area with Just curious. TIA DR When it gets cold, as others have remarked, classic is more fun and less work than skating. We have had cold here for almost a week - down to minus 20 F at night with daytime highs from minus 5F to minus 15F (the same general area as where the Pepsi Chalenge was cancelled because of predicted wind chill in the area of minus 45 - 50F)....and have classic skied every day in brilliant sunshine. If you can go with others and change lead, the tracks are actually fast (and because I am lazy am on blue glide wax) and kick of course is wonderful - I'm a big fan of Swix Polar on these days. Our weather is always so changeable that I'm not sure what would be "typical"; we regularly ski in up to 40F and in January often in below zero F. Personally, if it's below 10 F I prefer classic to the push required for slow skating. The cold snow makes skating a drag, regardless of glide wax. Burgess I agree with everything said above. Classic skiing is the only way to go when it's cold. My personal line is 0F - above skating is OK, below skating is awful. I always get a kick out of the unidimensional/ incomplete skiers who only skate and will be out there below zero. What a joke! I enjoy skiing to about -15 to -20 F. I have skiied at -30 and had fun, but it's tougher physically as it requires a lot of energy to move and keep warm. Bright sunny days at -10-15: couldn't be better. Easy to dress for, decent glide (with the right glide wax and very, very find structure) and EASY kick! I guess the only thing I disagree with the above poster is that if you're using Swix Polar for kick, you darn well shouldn't be using a blue wax - it should be a flavor of the coldest waxes. I'm very familiar with CH4, Holmenkol EC, Start Green and Star NA 8. All excellent waxes for cold weather - I start using them at about +5-10 F. Toko Blue is definitely inferior at very cold temps, unless you add cold powder, in which case it works pretty good. Adding moly or graphite seems to help in cold, dry temps also. |
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What are typical low end temperatures for XC?
This weekend I skied all three days.
It was near 5-7F on Friday and quite windy, maybe 15 mph with gusts. Bad ass day for skiing. I skated for an hour out in the open. (I didn't want to drive further.) I had to quit when it got dark and I couldn't see with the goggles on. Yes googles, they work. If I had more time, I would have only gone another 15 min or so. It was about -4 to -1F or so on Sat with a 10 mph wind. It was cold in the open against the wind, but maybe 80% of the course was in woods or wooded areas. I classic skied for 1:52. It was about -2 to 0F or so on Sun with light winds. I skated for 2:06. Windstopper (the Gore fabric) is wonderful. Once you stop skiing, you have about 100 seconds to get in the car or inside. Some areas of the body are wet, some dry, and you cool off really quick when you shut off the motor. Jay |
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What are typical low end temperatures for XC?
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:56:54 -0800 (PST), Camilo
wrote: I agree with everything said above. Classic skiing is the only way to go when it's cold. My personal line is 0F - above skating is OK, below skating is awful. I always get a kick out of the unidimensional/ incomplete skiers who only skate and will be out there below zero. What a joke! Some of us enjoy skating and/or are bad at classic. Thanks for your insight and commentary.... I've got decent glide on old snow at -8F - the problem for me at that temp is not the propulsion/glide of skating. It's just that I don't like being out much in weather of that temp. |
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The Gold Camp at the Canadian Ski Marathon is often -20C to -25C overnight. I hear claims of below -25C, but I suspect someone's sucking on the bulb to pull the mercury down. Cheers -- John |
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What are typical low end temperatures for XC?
On Jan 21, 11:56*am, Camilo wrote:
On Jan 21, 6:04 am, polarpoler wrote: On Jan 19, 10:05 pm, DirtRoadie wrote: OK, maybe this is a silly question, but while I live in an area with Just curious. TIA DR When it gets cold, as others have remarked, classic is more fun and less work than skating. We have had cold here for almost a week - down to minus 20 F at night with daytime highs from minus 5F to minus 15F (the same general area as where the Pepsi Chalenge was cancelled because of predicted wind chill in the area of minus 45 - 50F)....and have classic skied every day in brilliant sunshine. If you can go with others and change lead, the tracks are actually fast (and because I am lazy am on blue glide wax) and kick of course is wonderful - I'm a big fan of Swix Polar on these days. *Our weather is always so changeable that I'm not sure what would be "typical"; we regularly ski in up to 40F and in January often in below zero F. Personally, if it's below 10 F I prefer classic to the push required for slow skating. The cold snow makes skating a drag, regardless of glide wax. Burgess I agree with everything said above. *Classic skiing is the only way to go when it's cold. * My personal line is 0F - above skating is OK, below skating is awful. *I always get a kick out of the unidimensional/ incomplete skiers who only skate and will be out there below zero. What a joke! I enjoy skiing to about -15 to -20 F. *I have skiied at -30 and had fun, but it's tougher physically as it requires a lot of energy to move and keep warm. Bright sunny days at -10-15: couldn't be better. *Easy to dress for, decent glide (with the right glide wax and very, very find structure) and EASY kick! I guess the only thing I disagree with the above poster is that if you're using Swix Polar for kick, you darn well shouldn't be using a blue wax - it should be a flavor of the coldest waxes. *I'm very familiar with CH4, Holmenkol EC, Start Green and Star NA 8. *All excellent waxes for cold weather - I start using them at about +5-10 F. * Toko Blue is definitely inferior at very cold temps, unless you add cold powder, in which case it works pretty good. *Adding moly or graphite seems to help in cold, dry temps also.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Oh Camilo, I don't mean to imply that blue (in this case actually High Speed tan from the Seeley Hills race) glide is best for extremely cold weather, only that I was too lazy to change wax. I meant to demonstrate that in below zero F, classic tracks are actually quite forgiving as far as glide is concerned - were I waxing I would use one of the very hard waxes. And like Bjorn, I too wear something over my eyes (and carry a face mask just in case). Bjurgess |
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What are typical low end temperatures for XC?
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http://blogs.jsonline.com/offthecouc...tten-toes.aspx DirtRoadie wrote: In any case, what is the coldest typical daytime temperature that those of you in other parts of the country or world typically ski at? And when I say "typically" I mean just that - not some extreme that you experienced at one time or another. |
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What are typical low end temperatures for XC?
The World Masters Association definitely had a fixed temperature below which their member
racers were not allowed to start their race. Does that still apply and does anyone know the details? Mike |
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What are typical low end temperatures for XC?
On Jan 28, 2:42 pm, dardruba wrote:
The World Masters Association definitely had a fixed temperature below which their member racers were not allowed to start their race. Does that still apply and does anyone know the details? I'm out of skiing for a while, but few years back, FIS had rule that coldest temperature to allow start is -19c. I have no idea if this is still true, but for skiers sake, I hope they still have limit for races. It's really not nice to ski, and even less to race at those temperatures. As far as original post goes, lately average temperature where I ski is, believe it or not, around +5c. After 20 years of active racing, and now 9 years of skiing just for fun, I don't remember that I was ever skiing in just a t-shirt in middle of January. |
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