It’s been a slow start to winter with warm temperatures lingering until last month in both Hokkaido and British Columbia, but the snows have finally arrived. There has been the “snow, rain, melt” cycle going on for a couple of weeks, but the temperatures are stabilizing and dropping, so the snow levels are generally on the increase. The crew is already booked in for Thanksgiving in Whistler, and I’m off to Sapporo the second week of December, so time is getting short until snowboarding time!
I checked the edges and waxed up the boards the Sunday before last. The short board had a few rock nicks on the edges and some new base gouges from last Thanksgiving, but the long board just needed some minor edge polishing since it only saw powder. After cleaning the bases with wax remover and a Scotchbrite pad, I gave them both a hot wax with Toko yellow all over with red on the edges, followed with some Toko fluoro rub-on block for a little extra speed if it conditions get wet and sticky.
Here, I’m keeping the wax hot and fluid so it can work its way into the porous structure of the sintered base. On the right, you can see the waxed base, with a scraped section between the arrows. The nose in front of the arrow has been brushed, but it is difficult to see the difference in this picture.
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