Anna Haag skiing fast at the Tour de SkiPhoto: GEPA Pictures / Amir BeganovicThere is still time to get your race skis prepped for the American Birkie or Masters World Cup. Fast skis can cut a few percent from your race time, w...
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Wet weather fails to dampen the ski season
FasterSkierJanuary 17, 2011
The Mantec Ski Numericontrol 140 at Nordic UltratuneA warm wet "pineapple express" has brought rain and balmy weather to the inland Northwest, melting about 1/3 of our local snowpack. Fortunately we have plenty of snow to survive this wee...
Wet weather fails to dampen the ski season
FasterSkierJanuary 17, 2011
The Mantec Ski Numericontrol 140 at Nordic UltratuneA warm wet "pineapple express" has brought rain and balmy weather to the inland Northwest, melting about 1/3 of our local snowpack. Fortunately we have plenty of snow to survive this wee...
Wet weather fails to dampen the ski season
FasterSkierJanuary 17, 2011
The Mantec Ski Numericontrol 140 at Nordic UltratuneA warm wet "pineapple express" has brought rain and balmy weather to the inland Northwest, melting about 1/3 of our local snowpack. Fortunately we have plenty of snow to survive this wee...
Maine, mainly
FasterSkierDecember 27, 2010
The Technolami Mantec Ski Numericontrol 140 NCSixty five pairs of skis showed up, in big clumps, during the 4 days before Christmas. Primarily they were skis needing last minute grinds before US Nationals in Rumford. &...
Maine, mainly
FasterSkierDecember 27, 2010
The Technolami Mantec Ski Numericontrol 140 NCSixty five pairs of skis showed up, in big clumps, during the 4 days before Christmas. Primarily they were skis needing last minute grinds before US Nationals in Rumford. &...
Maine, mainly
FasterSkierDecember 27, 2010
The Technolami Mantec Ski Numericontrol 140 NCSixty five pairs of skis showed up, in big clumps, during the 4 days before Christmas. Primarily they were skis needing last minute grinds before US Nationals in Rumford. &...
Moving Snow
FasterSkierDecember 13, 2010
22 inches of new snow fell on Saturday night here in the upper Methow Valley. I spent most of Sunday morning moving snow so that I could get to the shop, where I got the opportunity to shovel a couple feet off of the sidewalk and entryway to the buildi...
Moving Snow
FasterSkierDecember 13, 2010
22 inches of new snow fell on Saturday night here in the upper Methow Valley. I spent most of Sunday morning moving snow so that I could get to the shop, where I got the opportunity to shovel a couple feet off of the sidewalk and entryway to the buildi...
December Stone Grinding Schedule
FasterSkierNovember 29, 2010
James Southam has well prepared skis. Photo: Ian Harvey / TokoYou've been training to get the most from your skiing, so make sure your skis aren't a limiter.Prepare all of your skis to run their best with a fresh stone grind and hotbox service. ...
June is still a week away, but the 2011 ski season is already lurking just around the corner, ready to pounce on any who spend too much time relaxing this spring. There are only 26 weeks (184 days) until the first SuperTour in West Yellowstone, and the season-opening Continental Cup races in Finland are even sooner – just 171 potential training days until these first FIS races. As the name would suggest, the calendar is...
New Ski Picks
FasterSkierOctober 7, 2009
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The Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association released the 2010 schedule of its member institutions. The western schools will not have to travel east as the University of Colorado will host the 2010 NCAA Ski Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colo., on March 10-13, following four regular season invitational meets and the RMISA Championships. The season will begin January 11-12 in Park City, Utah, with the University of Utah hosting the alpine portion of its meet. Montana...
The FIS has issued a draft of the 2009-2010 Cross-Country World Cup Schedule. The schedule will be sent to the FIS Council for approval in its next meeting in mid-June. Including the Olympics, there are 40 races on the calendar. The breakdown is as follows: Relays: 3 Individual Sprints: 13 Team Sprints: 3 Distance Races: 21 Individual Start Distance Races: 8 Mass Start Races: 8 Handicap Starts: 4 Freestyle Races: 17 (does not include relays or...
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European Shopping Trip
FasterSkierApril 28, 2009
As noted in the March newsletter, I'm shopping for a new grinder in Italy amp; Austria.br /br /We arrived on Saturday in Pisa, Italy, and spent the weekend recovering, a href="http://www.ultratune.net/images/2009%20Europe%20Trip%20040.jpg" target="_bla...
Whistler Revisited
FasterSkierApril 10, 2009
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Changing Seasons
FasterSkierMarch 31, 2009
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March 2009 Nordic Ultratune Newsletter
FasterSkierMarch 23, 2009
A lot more than I can post here... ...it's a fourteen page newsletter with lots of good information. a href="http://ultratune.net/pdfs/march2009newsletter.pdf" target="_blank"Take a look./adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='h...