ready for summer...

[upallnight]

so, i spent the better part of the morning (=boring) doing some maintenance and summer waxing of the boards. ugh.

i like the wizard bases the best.

[kidwoo]

Funny.

Me too. Backing off bindings, waxing, cool dry spaces..........*sigh*








at least until it freezes again

[Sphinx]

Shiiiit, I'm about to go crank my DIN up another notch after an incident yesterday. Gotta clean the mud off the topsheets, too.

PNW spring skiing is about to get prime! Finally stoked on skiing again after a lackluster April and May.

[dfinn]

what are the skis all the way to the right and what's the deal with the notch in them?

[upallnight]

what are the skis all the way to the right and what's the deal with the notch in them?

The skis on the right are Dynafit D712s (170cm, 72mm waist) for long tours over rolling terrain or super-early season. They don't see much action these days, but they actually do perform pretty well on steep, firm terrain for what they are.

Not sure what's up with that notch! It's not there in the RAW file from the camera -- seems like an artifact (a really strange one) in the creation of the JPEG. I re-converted it, but the same deal happened.

[upallnight]

Shiiiit, I'm about to go crank my DIN up another notch after an incident yesterday. Gotta clean the mud off the topsheets, too.

PNW spring skiing is about to get prime! Finally stoked on skiing again after a lackluster April and May.

Git after it!!

I wouldn't be posting a "waxing" thread if I were not on the D/L.

[adam]

I really have nothing to add, but sweet quiver.

[72Twenty]

My project for the weekend....

[mtnbikerskierchick]

Now that you're done with yours, can you come over and wax my quiver please?

[El Chupacabra]

so, i spent the better part of the morning (=boring) doing some maintenance and summer waxing of the boards. ugh.

i like the wizard bases the best.

Is it bad when you can identify skis by their bases?

[Hutch]

Is it bad when you can identify skis by their bases?

Nah. Spat, goat, seth, wiz, G4, explosiv... WTF

edit: read thread: WTF=Dynafit D712s

[upallnight]

Now that you're done with yours, can you come over and wax my quiver please?

i don't do housecalls, but if you drop 'em off i can have them ready in the morning.

[upallnight]

Is it bad when you can identify skis by their bases?

ah, but can you identify the bindings???

[kidwoo]

I think I can ID the ones on the explosivs and the pistols.

[sar13]

Since we're on the subject of storage wax; does anyone know, from experience, of any reason not to use old candles as storage wax?

I did this last spring and then just scraped off the excess and skied one 'em that way early season. No problems and it saved the good wax for the season. However, I have a few buddies who refuse to do it and seem to think it will somehow harm their skis.

Anyone?

[upallnight]

Since we're on the subject of storage wax; does anyone know, from experience, of any reason not to use old candles as storage wax?

I did this last spring and then just scraped off the excess and skied one 'em that way early season. No problems and it saved the good wax for the season. However, I have a few buddies who refuse to do it and seem to think it will somehow harm their skis.

Anyone?

I would suspect that it protects your bases (and achieves the "summer storage" purpose), but, hmm.... I'm guessing:

1) Maybe it could be "dirty"? It might have some contaminants that make their way into the process, while dedicated ski wax is a little more "pure".
2) It probably doesn't have as good glide characteristics as dedicated ski wax, and to remove it you wind up having to do a wax + hot scrape then another wax + cold scrape...so you wind up using the same amount of "good" wax. Whether this matters at all -- or matters during the early season -- is a personal choice.

Just a couple o' guesses.

Personally, I use a cheap, soft wax for the storage prep. However, I have not candles in the house.

[pechelman]

if you wanna be cheap, dont bother using candles, youll have dyes and scents and crap. just pickup some parafin wax from the grocery store used for canning, I even think it might be cheaper that candles, plus you dont have to worry about a wick getting in the way. The idea is just to keep the base protected from oxygen / oxidation and possibly dirt from getting on the bases and getting ground in depending on how and where you store them.

[Arty50]

Nah. Spat, goat, seth, wiz, G4, explosiv... WTF

Actually, I believe those are G41s, not G4s.

[Lexi-Bell]

G40's, not G41's

[upallnight]

G40's, not G41's

Ding ding ding!

(I gave credit for the original G4 guess since it's the same G4/G40/G41 family.)

[sfotex]

Just got finished up with the summer storage waxing.... Did the resort skis mid-april, now I just did the TX:EX's and the bros, but I scraped the bros 'cause they're going to Glacier next weekend. Kind ready for summer - I'm getting stoked on climbing....

[soul_skier]

ah, but can you identify the bindings???

from left to right: freerides, freerides, dynafit, freeride+, freeride+, dynafit, dynafit. (Guessing on freeride pluses, i know you got 2 pair, so hoping i'm right)
get some alpine binders for christ's sake, and don;t give me that crap about not wanting to use AT boots or whatever in alpine bindings...

[upallnight]

from left to right: freerides, freerides, dynafit, freeride+, freeride+, dynafit, dynafit. (Guessing on freeride pluses, i know you got 2 pair, so hoping i'm right)
get some alpine binders for christ's sake, and don;t give me that crap about not wanting to use AT boots or whatever in alpine bindings...

Close!

FR (Spat), FR (Got), Dynafit (SV), 977 (Wiz-might remount), FR+ (G40), Dynafit (Buddha-might remount), Dynafit (D712).

(I got 2 mo. pairs of FR+ around. Plan to mount one on the dp138s & swap the other pair with the Dyanfits from the Buddhas (dp120s get Dynafits, then)).