Solda Wax Recommendations

This race is a 58km skate race on a fast, rolling course with a fair amount of skiing in open fields. It can be windy and have a wind blown snow surface for some of the race. Times are generally fairly fast for a race of this length.


Friday: A 20 percent chance of snow before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. Calm wind.

Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 5. Wind chill values between -3 and 2. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph.

Saturday: A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. Northeast wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 2.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 22.

Skis: If you have a choice pick a pair of medium flex cold base skis with a fine grind. Remember that in cold snow you are looking for long contact zone of ski on snow.
Base wax: Rub on a layer of Solda HC 28. Drip on Solda Performance Green and iron it in, scrape and brush.
Race wax: Solda F15 or F31 Violet scraped and brushed. If it is not too windy and looks like it will warm up during the day, top with Solda HP05 - S30 mix 70/30 (or 50/50). If it looks to stay cold, has been and continues to be windy, top with Solda S32 or a mix of S20 and S30 in 50/50 ratio instead of the HP05 mix.