The conditions are looking amazing for Craftsbury this weekend! Expect lots of snow, cold temps, and beautiful skiing.
Adam will be in the lower community wax room (below the main gym at Craftsbury) on Saturday morning to help with kickwaxing. If you’re looking for some help with kickwaxing, please make an effort to check-in at least 75-90 min prior to race start!
Here are some thoughts:
- It’s looking like a hardwax binder will be a great starting point. Check out a video of applying that here. On race morning, this can also be done although you will need to set skis outside for a bit to cool the binder before applying/testing kickwax.
- We will be testing blue and green hardwax for these conditions, along with more kicky options like Oslo Green. If you are on-site and looking to apply your own Oslo Green (or Blue) layer, here is a video on our favorite method!
- For glide, a few layers of standard cold glide wax will set your bases up well. Given Craftsbury’s habit of grooming often and repeatedly, we can expect conditions to feel pretty fast despite the cold temps. Toko Blue and Rode R20 are great options, and at least two layers (scraped and brushed between) will help prepare the glide zones.
- If you like to add liquid topcoats, be sure to consider application method and timing. Aerosol sprays such as Swix and Toko are best applied the night before and left to dry as long as possible, and then brushed with a nylon brush in the morning. Our race day wax help will focus less on glide waxing/topcoats but we may be able to add some speed to your skis if we aren’t too backed-up with kick!
- For the skate day, it looks like a similar wax choice would work well, although MNC coaches will not be on-site since the U16/EHS Qualifier is taking place down in Rikert.
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