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Normally we expect to finish our busiest work time just before Thanksgiving, and then coast into a relatively easy period of light grinding volume and fun family skiing. This year we’ve blown right through our transition to easy days without slowing down. We’ve been busier than ever in the shop, and without Tom here that […]

Vauhti hfC15 liquid wins again (yawn…). It’s not even Thanksgiving, and it’s already getting old that the hfC15 liquid keeps winning our tests. Of course, given the hype we’ve given it so far, it’s probably a good thing! Today Amy ran a fluoro test with three powders, two liquids, and a “control” ski with yesterday’s […]

Erik Mundahl was apparently insecure about somebody else sending test results, so he headed out for a kick wax test in Anchorage yesterday afternoon. It was warm (for Anchorage) with falling high moisture snow – a good opportunity to test some of the stuff I wrote about in last season’s post on waxing in near-zero […]

Amy arrived in West Yellowstone on Sunday evening, and had the opportunity on Monday to ski her brains out before Tom arrived Monday night with all of our test skis and wax. Today, however, the work began. With several days of testing available before the racing starts, Amy decided to get the lay of the […]

For the fourth weekend in the last five, Erik Mundahl spent his Saturday testing wax at Hatcher Pass. This would make him the “testing machine” of the title of the post. Very sorry if you were hoping for some new piece of technology. Our big hope for this test was that colder conditions would prevail, […]

We have an e-commerce site so that you can buy stuff! We’ve already done a “soft-launch” on Facebook, and you may have noticed  the odd link in the last webpage post or two. Over the weekend we put some links on the front page (“accessories” is now “shop”). So it’s high-time we announced it for […]

Liquid fluoro durability is a big question – many waxers tend to prejudicially avoid liquid fluoros because of doubts about their durability. Meanwhile, some wax companies claim very high durability, while others say something like “suitable for sprints” which is code for “good luck”. It hardly inspires confidence! In fact, I think the variability in […]

Erik Mundahl seemed willing to do some more testing on the snow up at Hatcher Pass. (By the way, it’s Hatcher, not Hatcher’s or Hatchers.) He had test skis ready last weekend, but the weather was bad (warm and windy). By the time we had traded ideas back and forth all this past week, he […]

Erik Mundahl was visiting last week, and worked a whole bunch of hours on the grinder. By the time he got back to Alaska there was groomed skiing up at Hatcher’s Pass, and he called this afternoon with a report on his first testing session of the year. This is exciting for a couple of […]