Nordic Skiing and the End of the Season.

For some of us, though it appears the skiing is over for the season in the city, we travel 30 minutes out of town and some of the best skiing of the winter is still occurring.

Daily grooming at SWC, has been awesome, as it certainly helps to have a groomer who is an avid skier as well. Take your choice of skiing straight ice, granular ice, or wet slushy snow. It will all depend upon the time and temperature of the day as when to go skiing.

Winter must draw to a close, sooner or later, though for some of us that will bring mixed feelings. Our ski season friends will be replaced by our summer time friends. That may mean the same people or might be a whole different circle of friends.

An unofficial poll of summer time activities that Nordic skiers might do, would include; hiking with poles, all forms of biking, swimming, canoeing, weights and stretching, kayaking, and running.

Goals might be formed to lose weight, gain ski specific muscle, and perhaps do or race a certain event next winter, with an eye for improvement of time.

May is just around the corner and some of the die hard skiers, have been skiing since late October and we will, perhaps, ski till May which is just another 12 days away at the time of this post. With the possibility of doing a glacier ski or two this summer next ski season is not far away. 

The groomer just scratched the ice enough to allow the skate skis to get an edge. A second pass would have made it awesome, but that would shorten the life of track. In just over an hour this snow will be slush as it warms up to +6C to +8C. That is when you take off a few layers of clothes, and let the snow soak into your muscles down to the bone. 

As always keep an eye out for the moose relaxing and suntanning in the snow as well. The moose pick a more open area with shrubs close by where they can just reach with their neck and have lunch.


                                  HAVE A GREAT SUMMER, BE SAFE, HAVE FUN!