For the summer people are welcome to use to board to arrange cycling rendevous etc.

“Now that the ski season is over for most of us, its time to think about preparing your skis for summer storage. The base of your skis are made of p-tex and with out a layer of wax, they will oxidize * over time and not hold wax the way they should. Ideally the kick wax, klister or wax grip tape should be removed as well as your old glide wax.

For a fee of 10.00$ I will hot scrape** your skis and and apply a storage wax.

Note, a portion of this fee will be donated to the Tantramar Outdoor Club

If your interested, drop me an email at swix2@hotmail.com

*Oxidation – when there is no glide wax on the ski base, the p-tex reacts with oxygen in the air to form a whitish layer. This oxidized layer will reduce the glide properties of the ski and also blocks the pores in the base so that additional glide wax will not penetrate the base
**Hot Scrape – a method for cleaning the glide zone of classic skis or the whole base on skate skis. Glide wax is applied, melted to an even layer and then scraped off while still in a liquid form or very soft. This process will clean the bases effectively.”

Does anyone know the owner? Are the blockages for snowmobile/ATV, or for everyone? I took the hint yesterday and did not go out on the fields.

I am compelled to send out this hopefully brief missive due to the number of discouraged skiers I keep encountering who feel that the ski season is over! I have seen the desperate ones out walking and miserably bundled up on bicycles battling wind, salt and cold. To quote our infamous ski philosopher xleblanc- “it’s winter, and in winter, in Sackville, we ski”
But Clarence,you must be kidding, there is no snow in Sackville…
Great skiing today off the end of the Brooklyn Road in Midgic-Go right at the T-junction in Midgic, left after the church and 1 km after the end of the pavement (on a somewhat soupy road if is warm) where the road takes a shrp right to Jolicure, park and continue straight around a huge fallen fir tree which unfortunately blocks the trail for ATV’s, ski doos etc.(Don’t take the Ski doo trail on the left which is quite icey.) Put your skis on after this brief “portage” and you will face kilometers of trail with 15+ cm of dense snow with only an old ski doo track and on the first few km. There are a few streams which still have snow bridges and a Km or so past the rail trail(where you can go right for a few hundred meters and have a snack on the Brooklyn Bridge-the famous one), on the straight route, you will come to a large fast flowing stream with a 14″ wide bridge remnant which may make this a nice turn around spot if you don’t like tight rope walking, but kilometers of great snow lay on the other side. The main problem with this route is it is quite flat and fairly straight so the thrill seekers will be disappointed. My guide and I skied this at about 4 degrees and it was fine. It could also be done below freezing with waxless or skate skis. The Fog Forest Fysics lab estimate there is enough snow to last about 400 plus-degree hours (the average temperature above freezing x the number of hours it is above freezing). I am sure Professors Hornidge and Coates will be verifying this in the lab next week)
Also the rail trail from Midgic(about 1 km or so left after the T-junction is not bad if it is warm enough to soften up the ski doo packed trail-some icey spots. There is still lots of snow on the Crooked Tree Trail but it is pretty dirty. It could be skied in warm conditions and 2 cm of fresh snow would make it quite fine.
So don’t throw those skis away yet grasshopper… Cheers, Ross