Comments on: Top Reasons I Enjoy Being A Senior Nordic Skier https://seniorsskiing.com/top-reasons-enjoy-senior-nordic-skier/ Everything for the 50+ Snow Enthusiast Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Emilio Trampuz https://seniorsskiing.com/top-reasons-enjoy-senior-nordic-skier/#comment-9134 Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:30:41 +0000 https://f9b0d5261e.nxcli.io/?p=8356#comment-9134 In reply to Daniel Chisholm.

Probably Palandoken ski area just south of the town of Erzurum in eastern Turkey. I think that is the largest ski area in Turkey.

]]> By: Jack Shipley https://seniorsskiing.com/top-reasons-enjoy-senior-nordic-skier/#comment-9131 Mon, 25 Dec 2017 06:46:20 +0000 https://f9b0d5261e.nxcli.io/?p=8356#comment-9131 Thanks for the good article, Roger! Ya, I remember those plastic spare ski tips we used to have to carry, for when our wooden skis broke. But I still have one pair of excellent wooden skis that never broke — they were made of laminated hickory by the Lund company in Minnesota, and were painted plain white for the U.S. Army in 1951. I stripped off the white paint, and put on some Swedish ABC Victory cable bindings from 1970, and they are sweet backcountry skis. Actually turn better than any modern “one-and-a-half” camber plastic ski. See you out in backcountry some day!

]]> By: Jan Brunvand https://seniorsskiing.com/top-reasons-enjoy-senior-nordic-skier/#comment-9130 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:25:50 +0000 https://f9b0d5261e.nxcli.io/?p=8356#comment-9130 I did lots of XC as a kid in Michigan with my Norwegian-born Dad and brother Tor, but have stuck pretty much to downhill here in Utah, despite some great possibilities of tours. I hope my occasional cracks about snowboarders do not count as an “attitude,” as I, too, believe in live-and-let-live among snow sports.

Nice article! I should dust off the old gear and try it again. Better yet, upgrade my gear and get serious about XC too.

]]> By: Brad Noren https://seniorsskiing.com/top-reasons-enjoy-senior-nordic-skier/#comment-9095 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:18:43 +0000 https://f9b0d5261e.nxcli.io/?p=8356#comment-9095 Roger, great article!
“Glide Long and Prosper”
Brad Noren
Nordic Ski Inst

]]> By: Daniel Chisholm https://seniorsskiing.com/top-reasons-enjoy-senior-nordic-skier/#comment-9082 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 15:26:21 +0000 https://f9b0d5261e.nxcli.io/?p=8356#comment-9082 In reply to Terry Rosenthal.

I learned to ski at Alpine Valley, Wisconsin. I visited Turkey as a traveling hippie and just loved it. Reached Kona to watch the Dervishes.

Where is the downhill skiing there?

Sincerely,

Dan Chisholm

]]> By: Terry Rosenthal https://seniorsskiing.com/top-reasons-enjoy-senior-nordic-skier/#comment-9069 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:39:45 +0000 https://f9b0d5261e.nxcli.io/?p=8356#comment-9069 My first overseas X-C ski outing will be in Germany this January. Although I live in eastern Turkey, they haven’t discovered the sport so I have had to downhill ski. I started as a teenager in Wisconsin state forests and fell in love with the peace and quiet. Thanks for the article.

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