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| Wax Advice from a proven Ottawa veteran ski waxer, Alan Mortimer. In case someone asks here is what I’ve learned over the last
20 years of waxing at Nakkertok.
This weekend Friday is going to be pretty much blind as the
temperature is supposed to drop from Thursday morning through to race
time. More importantly the snow will
continue to dry out. So these are the
things that typically work for specific conditions.
1: Toko diabloc red. This is more often than anything the best
glide wax if it is in the temperature range.
In new (really new flaky) snow try Swix HF or perhaps Vahuti.
2: If it warms up
above diabloc red I would probably shift to Vhauti purple and pink HF.
3: If we get a
freezing rain crust that needs to be chewed up by the groomer, flouo waxes with
molybdenum have worked well, particularly Swix Black Devil. Graphite is a disaster under the same
circumstances
4: Powders: I have
had most success with Vhauti , Rex and Start.
For some reason swix is either right on or it will miss by a mile, so I’ll
test but would never put it on without testing carefully.
5: Depending on what
happens with grooming the snow will be abrasive so harden the skis with Swix
CH4.
I’ll test Thursday morning so that the results are available
by 2:00 pm. Thursday on my twitter account @alan_mortimer. I’ll also post what I am testing the night
before after I prep skis. We will also
do structure tests using Gatineau Nordic grinds and report them. Hopefully we can post them on site, but that
may depend on the race organization. Have a great weekend and good luck waxing. Alan. |