Now this sounds like great fun! Keep us informed. I did only a little bit of cross-country skiiing while in Kebec, but I enjoyed it immensely, and IME it is the non-cycling equivalent of cycling. I actually bought a pair of cheap LL Bean XC skis after I moved here to ABQ, but we get ski-able snow only about once every 3 years, so I exploited their (then) return when you like policy.
Speaking of which, tangent, but not wholly irrelevant: Early Feb, 1991, I was roped as the cyclist into a very, very amateur team doing the Mt Taylor Quad -- their other cyclist had dropped out. We were competing -- get this -- against 1 man, a wholly superior athlete (*), who would do the ~15 mile bike leg up Mount Taylor, ~5 mile run, ~ 2 mile XC ski, and ~1 mile snowshoe, repeat on the return, alone. I recall wearing lycra shorts and a poly-wool LS jersey, and naught else -- temps about freezing. I forget if we won or lost -- wouldn't surprise me if we lost; but I was never so cold in my life while waiting for the return leg down the mountain. (*) Bob Rosebrough, Gallup, NM; he is Google-able. 6'4" of athletic prowress. Anecdote of his early racing career: regional cycling race, the roadies are bunched at the front. They hear a heavy whirring sound, and look back. There is Bob on a 25" mountain bike with knobbies gaining on them. They say "Oh, no!" He won the race. On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 9:17 AM 'Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch < rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Attempt to show this is on topic that only does the opposite: I'm puzzling > out how these might play with me brain so I can strap them to Shadowfax, me > fixed gear Hunqapillar, ride to the trailhead after a delightful deep snow > and enjoy skiing with delightful, controlled descents). > > https://altaiskis.com/ > > My biggest gripes with backcountry telemark skis back in the 80's and 90's > was they were too long for skiing trails, too narrow for powder, especially > breaking trail, required the donning and doffing of skins, required > proprietary boots that never fit (even worse now I'm barefoot/minimalist). > In barefoot circles the skis and style of skiing by the good folks in the > Altai mountains of Asia knew how to do this right and proper, and I > lamented twelve years ago there were no such skis now. Well, there are, > now, as of four years ago. Grin. Kind of the rivendell of skiing. > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org > www.CatholicHalos.org > www.DeaconPatrick.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0F2C415B-7D84-4108-97C2-8AE8F78B0E7E%40mac.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0F2C415B-7D84-4108-97C2-8AE8F78B0E7E%40mac.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvcv%3Drni2%3Dcacj%2BHZFUQoNVQG9yWy8%2B14Z-aia38DC4Cg%40mail.gmail.com.
