BNS Wax Recommendation
Christmas Classic – NRL at Sun Valley
Event date/ time: Saturday ‐ December 18, 2011 – 11am
Location: Galena Lodge, Idaho (20 miles North of Sun Valley)
Technique: Classic
Distance: 7.2k / 5k mass starts
Weather: NOAA Forecast
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 32. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 14. Light north northwest wind.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 36. Light and variable wind.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 16.
Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 33.
Recommendation based on: local knowledge, skied trails in past few days and forecast based recommendation. Snow is old/abrasive and not much of it, hope to get .5” to 1.0” of new over this on Thursday night. Snow at Galena always skis slow due to high elevation and low humidity, it can be squeaky slow with air temp in mid 20’s – we always wax cold for Galena!
Recommendation
Glide Recommendation
Base Layer: Ski‐Go LF Graphite, cool, scrape, brush
Race Paraffin: Holmenkol Matrix Blue/Black
Fluoro Powder: not recommended
Top Coat: SkiGo C105 solid, corked, brushed
Structure: Finite L04 (Finite Ski Tools, Linear .4mm)
Kick Recommendation
Testing will be required Sunday morning. Possibility of green klister covered with a kick wax inthe blue range. It would be a disservice and possible disaster to recommend before testing.
note: BNS imports Holmenkol and SkiGo waxes, and also sells waxes from Swix, Toko, Rode, Solda, Rex, Guru, Innovax, Magnar and others. We search for the fastest waxes for our customers and our testing is professional, objective and transparent. We make our best effort to test what we think is the best from each brand. However, given that we are testing more options from Holmenkol and SkiGo, there is a bias toward those brands. With this full disclosure, you can assess the legitimacy of our testing yourself. Visit Swix and Toko for their official recommendations. If you have any questions please contact us.