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Crust in a.m., corn in p.m.?
Here in mid-Michigan we now have GREAT CRUST in the open areas. My
poles broke thru in shady places. We had 40F sun yesterday and today it's 25F still. I usually switch over about now to pure crust skating on the more picturesque of local golf courses. In the morning the tracked trails would be boilerplate death ice. But I have a question: is the idea that later in the afternoon, after it's thawed awhile, that the tracked trails will get their own Sweet Spot and be great, fast corn for awhile (with enough softness and texture on top to quiet the skis and give control) until it's been warm for too long and they turn to slop? This time of year can be kinda short for us, so I want to shorten my learning-curve and not miss out or mess up. I have friends who prefer trail skiing so I'm thinking we can go out in the afternoons but I didn't want to screw up and send them out to their icy doom or get their poles sunk halfway to the grips. : ) I just had a great blazing fast half hour golf course crust skate -- maybe 15mph on some of the flats! --JP |
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Crust in a.m., corn in p.m.?
jeff potter wrote:
Here in mid-Michigan we now have GREAT CRUST in the open areas. My poles broke thru in shady places. We had 40F sun yesterday and today it's 25F still. I usually switch over about now to pure crust skating on the more picturesque of local golf courses. In the morning the tracked trails would be boilerplate death ice. But I have a question: is the idea that later in the afternoon, after it's thawed awhile, that the tracked trails will get their own Sweet Spot and be great, fast corn for awhile (with enough softness and texture on top to quiet the skis and give control) until it's been warm for too long and they turn to slop? This time of year can be kinda short for us, so I want to shorten my learning-curve and not miss out or mess up. I have friends who prefer trail skiing so I'm thinking we can go out in the afternoons but I didn't want to screw up and send them out to their icy doom or get their poles sunk halfway to the grips. : ) I just had a great blazing fast half hour golf course crust skate -- maybe 15mph on some of the flats! --JP In my neck of the woods (down in the hills of the New York State Finger Lakes, a special spot exists that has 2200 ft altitude and gets much more snow than anyplace within 100 miles (Harriet Hollister NYS rec area). I find that in spring there is about a 2 hour window where the snow softens up from ice before is gets too soft. Depends how fast things are warming, but 10-12pm is typical in later spring. |
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