Nordic Skiing: Early birdy - 1,667 m. (5,469 ft)

Sat, 5 March 2022

Technical

Minimum altitude: 1,282 meters

Distance: 22.7 km

Slope Aspect: East

Vertical Climbed: 634 meters (2,080 feet)

Vertical Descended: 648 meters

Description

I decided to have another crack at the Charmant Som climb before the club training this morning. I set out at 7:45am and was the first person on the climb. Some of the old walkers tracks were still apparent below the fresh corduroy. Climbing wasn't as easy as I imagined at the hard snow created a lot of friction on the ski bases. The climb to the Oratoire took 30m05 seconds, I just missed the target of going under 30 minutes. Damn! Just a few seconds quicker than the previous PB and a 20 seconds slower to the Bergeries at 35m34. Descent was quick, 7m02 compared to a PB of 6m56. Still a month left to have a few more goes and with maybe slightly better snow.

For the club session we concentrated on skate two - ankle flex, body and arm position then transitions skate one to skate two and polling both sides on skate one before a game of snowball (football in snow), our side got walloped !

Conditions

Very good refreeze but the snow was very hard and not very skiddy. Pleasant in the sun, cold in the shade.

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