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Your top 5 favorite trails?: Garnet Hill, NY
Gatineau Park, PQ
Mt. Van Hoevenberg, NY
Fahnestock, NY when there's snow!!

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At 9:16am on February 14, 2008, Andy Farry said…: I'd like to say I was listening to hard-core motivational music to help on those killer uphills, but it was an audiobook. Helps me relax and "zone out". I highly recommend it!

At 8:37am on February 14, 2008, Andy Farry said…: John-

great pics from the LP Loppet; thanks for posting them. I remember skiing along with you during the race (I was bib 332).

At 3:31pm on February 13, 2008, David Kvam said…: Thanks! Nice job yourself...

At 11:38am on February 4, 2008, Joe Korzenecki said…: JT

Schreiner's is a great place to ski but it's to far from our Cappuccino maker in LP.

Skied Van Hoe last weekend...very nice! The Loppet should be a go.

At 7:20pm on February 3, 2008, jcork said…: RE: Question about LF vs. HF waxes on that other newsgroup (I can't bring myself to enter discussions there anymore):

In Colorado/Utah, I end up waxing with LF over HF quite often. I have two pairs of (matched) test skis so I'll compare four waxes at a time -- and LF is often the best. At SoHo a few weeks ago, LF4 was better than HF4 and BD4 in the morning -- all better than CH4, Start Green and LF6. As the day warmed up, LF6 got better -- but was even faster with FC1 on top. However, HF6 sucked. Weird.

Bottom line is that you should test wax -- wax one-and-one, compare, and apply to the race skis. Even if you just test on your warm-up skis, at least you know the better of two waxes.

At 11:25am on February 1, 2008, Joe Korzenecki said…: JT

I hope your favorite trails are not in order of preference!

We both know nothing beats High Notch after doing Porter and Russian Hill first!!