First thanks for reading and commenting! Yeah, I would suggest though it is better to be overwarm than cold and on the next trip wear one less layer or a thinner layer.

I need to give snowboarding a shot and then obese skis a try that is the other Nordic event, but of course I don’t plan on trying that out at Copper Peak!

I got in about 12 miles of road a few weeks ago in that warm snap we had. I went to the local Y and back. So, I am hoping to get at least one ride in this month and I will have a real shot at getting in one ride a month the whole year long and when I get my carbon bike built I am hoping for a 2400 mile year.

Anyway expect a Devil’s Head article in a week or so!

My Nordic skis are old, old, and older, but I may have scored an update from a relative. But now I’ve got to get new boots. The old setup has a 3-pin binder, the new one will have (I think) SNS bindings.

My skinny skiing experience has been limited to flat (or flattish) park grounds near the house, plus one trip through some of the terrain at Boyne Mountain. At my mountain-bike park, the peak-to-trough distance on bike trails is about 100 feet; I suspect the same is true, more or less, for the XC trails.

You are certainly right; you need much less clothing on skinny skis than you do on downhilling equipment.