Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Yellowstone Rendezvous 09
We are entering the season of variable weather. It is rainy and warm right now at West Yellowstone. It looks like after this warm spell will end and there will be a return of more Montana winter weather. Snow is likely Friday. By Friday night the current forecast is for a low of -9F.
The forecasters are calling for a race start temp of 7F at 9:15 am. It could be 27 by 1:00 pm. My guess is that it will be a mix of old and new snow. Humidity should be fairly high.
Here is what I would do. Pick a pair of cold base skis with a fairly fine grind and longish contact zones. Clean the bases and then prep by crayoning on a fairly thick layer of SOLDA HC28. Cover this with F15 Blue. I like to iron this in with a couple passes from tip to tail and set it aside. Do the other ski. Come back to ski #1 and iron it again. Set it aside. Re-iron ski # 2. Now scrape #1. Be sure before you scrape that there are no white patches under the wax. The wax should come off in a powder and not in splintering shards of shrapnel. Next SOLDA F31 Violet, scraped and brushed. Follow up with SOLDA F40 Green scraped and brushed. You should now have a nice shinny black ski. Finish it with SOLDA HPO6. If the snow is windblown and very abrasive, harden the base after the green with S32 or S30 after the Green and finish with HPO6.
I will post an update on Friday if it looks like a change is necessary.
May you have fast skis, strong legs and a stout heart.
Bert
The forecasters are calling for a race start temp of 7F at 9:15 am. It could be 27 by 1:00 pm. My guess is that it will be a mix of old and new snow. Humidity should be fairly high.
Here is what I would do. Pick a pair of cold base skis with a fairly fine grind and longish contact zones. Clean the bases and then prep by crayoning on a fairly thick layer of SOLDA HC28. Cover this with F15 Blue. I like to iron this in with a couple passes from tip to tail and set it aside. Do the other ski. Come back to ski #1 and iron it again. Set it aside. Re-iron ski # 2. Now scrape #1. Be sure before you scrape that there are no white patches under the wax. The wax should come off in a powder and not in splintering shards of shrapnel. Next SOLDA F31 Violet, scraped and brushed. Follow up with SOLDA F40 Green scraped and brushed. You should now have a nice shinny black ski. Finish it with SOLDA HPO6. If the snow is windblown and very abrasive, harden the base after the green with S32 or S30 after the Green and finish with HPO6.
I will post an update on Friday if it looks like a change is necessary.
May you have fast skis, strong legs and a stout heart.
Bert
# posted by Bert Hinkley : 2:50 PM
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