Ski resorts are downhill skiing. It is a completely different wax than for cross country. On xcountry, you need some traction. The wax grips the snow when you plant your heel on the ski. Downhill wax is designed to make you go faster. Temperature of snow is what the color coding is. Red wax is a softer wax than a blue. At least for downhill wax. New xcountry equipment and waxless skis may have lowered the older wax style availability. Keith Roberts On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote: > On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Susan Kline wrote: > > At 10:16 AM 12/7/2009, Fred wrote: >> >>> Why red? >>> >> >> Norwegians know their ski wax ... >> >> Susan >> > > I don't doubt it. I just have images of those red streaks caused by nail > polish glissandi <G>. I figure it has to do with thickness or something, but > maybe the color coding is different in the New Mexican ski resorts. > > Regards, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > fssturm at unm.edu > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091208/d2a31e74/attachment.htm>
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