Cross country ski-ing

[Guick Dotto]

[QUOTE=IanDarkpeak;294574]My Cross country skis are proper old school steel edge skis from Rossignol, 75mm 3 pin bindings. leather boots with vibram sole.

Snap!
I had some old plastic boots with a vibram sole but they rotted over the 18 years of languishing in my shed. "New" Crispi boots are the same but the real Mc Coy.
I love the sound of your epic. well done for surviving. I thought I'd ski across to the summit of Round Hill from the high point on the Blubberhouses road but I just kept falling through into the heather and getting the skis stuck so I bailed out. Sometimes I want an epic but I already know how to survive (so far) All I want is to ski like a Norwegian.
Talking of which has Eirik Stangness skied the 3 Peaks yet? It was perfect on Sunday apart from the howling wind on the tops.

[Splatcher]

My Cross country skis are proper old school steel edge skis from Rossignol, 75mm 3 pin bindings. leather boots with vibram sole.


I guess not many can say they've fallen through a cornice in the peak!!!

Any way I managed to tunnel, plough, climb my way back up but it took best part on an hour up in white out conditions....

First read this just after you posted it, Ian, but I thought I needed to digest it a bit before posting. Certainly counts as an epic in my book! I was trying to explain to my kids last night why we may not be climbing any mountains this weekend when we're in the Lakes, and your story came in very handy! This time last year we took them up on High Street in wind, snow & low cloud for a "big adventure" & to give them the experience. The big difference was that there wasn't the depth of snow there this time last year. Good job you survived to tell the tale! Could have had a broken leg as well - then we may have been reading about it in the papers rather than on the forum.

And of course it could just as easily have been me or loads of others on the forum & elsewhere who love getting out on the tops in wild conditions. Without pushing the boundaries life loses a lot of its flavour - for me anyway.

[IanDarkpeak]

First read this just after you posted it, Ian, but I thought I needed to digest it a bit before posting. Certainly counts as an epic in my book! I was trying to explain to my kids last night why we may not be climbing any mountains this weekend when we're in the Lakes, and your story came in very handy! This time last year we took them up on High Street in wind, snow & low cloud for a "big adventure" & to give them the experience. The big difference was that there wasn't the depth of snow there this time last year. Good job you survived to tell the tale! Could have had a broken leg as well - then we may have been reading about it in the papers rather than on the forum.

And of course it could just as easily have been me or loads of others on the forum & elsewhere who love getting out on the tops in wild conditions. Without pushing the boundaries life loses a lot of its flavour - for me anyway.

I agree there's no value life with out knowing you will die one day.

Plan to try again on friday but this time on touring skiis and skin up, at the very least coming back will be easier

[Mark G]

Out again today and a friend lent me his spare pair of ski mountaineering skis - he gave me a few goes on them on other trips over the last few days and it turns out you can actually steer them whilst going downhill. Makes a change from falling over then getting up pointing in the new direction I want to go. I liked these a lot, they were great and I would like to do more but there are lots of other things I would like to do as well and unless we can expect a winter this good every year its not really justifiable for me. Plus I still really enjoyed getting some miles in on my old x country skis - its nice to go places, especially while running is a bit of a problem in or on the snow.

[nikalas]

This stuff would be impressive on alpine skis but on nordic it's simply incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cppkpKu-CA

[IanDarkpeak]

This stuff would be impressive on alpine skis but on nordic it's simply incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cppkpKu-CA

agreed wow! top stuff

[Al Fowler]

This stuff would be impressive on alpine skis but on nordic it's simply incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cppkpKu-CA

Thats quality. I like the way they put all the crashed and falls in.

[nikalas]

Shiny new pair of Hagan X-Trace back country skis have finally just arrived.... what are the bets we don't get any more snow this year!

[Eirik The Viking]

Not been online much the last few months so I only read this thread with great interest today.

Although I was away skiing when you lot enjoyed all the snow here, I am extremely annoyed I missed it all.

If I hadn’t been away, I would for sure have skied the 3 peaks in the same style as these guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUxS9...layer_embedded

[IanDarkpeak]

Shiny new pair of Hagan X-Trace back country skis have finally just arrived.... what are the bets we don't get any more snow this year!

Plenty of snow on Bleaklow Nik. I might be going up with my touring skiis on Sat