MICHIGAN CUP RELAYSbr /Saturday January 9br /NOAA weather forecast:br /br /Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 1. Wind chill values as low as -6. North wind around 5 mph.br /Saturday: Scattered flurries. Partly cloudy, with a high near 17. Wind chill values as low as -6. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph.br /Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 6. West wind between 5 and 10 mph.br /Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 25.br /br /Solda Glide wax for Saturday: Pick a pair of skis with medium flex, cold bases and a fine grind. Start with rubbing on a layer of SOLDA HC28. Cover this by dripping and ironing a layer of SOLDA F15 Blue. Scrape and brush. It wouldn’t hurt to apply a second layer to harden the bases more. Finish with SOLDA HP05/S30 mix 50/50. This is ironed in once with a hot (130C) iron taking about 8 seconds to pass the whole ski. Follow by corking by hand or with a roto cork and polish with a felt pad. Set the skis aside to cool. Finish by brushing the cool skis with a horse hair or soft nylon polishing brush.br /br /Another choice for finishing could be to cover the F15 Blue with Powerjet 4 corked, polished and brushed.br /br /Kick wax for Michigan Cup Relaybr /For this short race you may not need a binder. You could apply a binder of Swix VG30 or Toko Green Base. Iron it in, let it cool and then cork smooth. Let it cool and apply 4-6 thin layers of your favorite cold kick wax. Could be Swix V20 or VR30. Maybe Rode Green Special or Green. Carry a wax that is one temp range warmer. If your skis are a bit stiff or have a high wax pocket, try the warmer wax under foot to just in front of the binding.br /br /br /NENSA BOG BURN, POMFRET, VTbr /br /br /This is and old style classic race at the farm. 13km of narrow up and down in the Vermont woods. Weather forecast is as follows:br /br /Friday: Snow likely, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 20. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.br /br /Friday Night: A slight chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 9. North wind around 6 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.br /br /Saturday: Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 15. North wind between 5 and 7 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.br /br /SOLDA GLIDE WAXbr /Pick a soft to medium flex classic ski with a cold base. Cover the kick zone with wide masking tape. On the glide zone apply a base layer of SOLDA Performance Green or Techno Green. Scrape and brush. Next apply a layer of F31 or F40 Violet. Finish with SOLDA HP05.br /br /br /Economy wax could be Performance Green and F15 Violet.br /br /Kick wax: Swix, start with a thin binder layer of VG30 ironed in. Let it cool and cork smooth. Then apply 7-10 layers of VR40. Make each two layers shorter than the previous layers to achieve a “pyramid” of kick wax. Keep Some VR45 to apply under foot if you need more kick.br /br /Rode: Try Rode Green -4 to -10 applied the same as above. Then have some Rode Fast Blue Special or Blue Super if more kick needed.div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6589659500745667109-4787043554380089647?l=www.webskis.com%2Fwebskisblog.html’ alt=” //div
