Training Log Archive: edwarddes

Craftsbury Ski-O

Long - Splits

Clearing a big birch tree that fell on my mainline with a very dull axe. The tee was about 18" dbh, but forked quickly up its main trunk so I was able to limb the whole tree than cut through a few of the forks to get the line and wire free. It would have been a lot less work to trudge down the hill to the shop and sharpen the ax first instead of just bludgeoning my way through things. Sore shoulders and thumbs now.

C • Dull Axe... 2

Out through the sugarbush clearing more trees from the lines, then off the end up the saddle to the top of Holt mountain and back.

Out Danby road to the stone bridge, then up to the right to the top. Conditions were really icy, so the run back down hill was interesting.

Around Kens fields and the pines. Lots of loops, but good coverage on what we were skiing.

Danby road out and back.
First ski of the season. I didn't know what the conditions would be like, so I went out on the super rock ski peltonens (skate skis that had a bit of kick wax on them, and no edges at all). It turned out to be quite nice except where Cameron drove a tractor on it with some farm implement trying to break up the once and just made death cookies. It had been over with a tidd tech out to the stone bridge and up that road. Beyond that point was a lot harder ice surface.