Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxm!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ames!eugene From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: net.rec.ski Subject: Re: Does XC exist on the net? Message-ID: <678@ames.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 14:54:00 EST Article-I.D.: ames.678 Posted: Tue Dec 4 14:54:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 04:00:47 EST References: <382@mako.UUCP> <642@rocksvax.UUCP> <880@dual.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 25 [] I vote against a separate news group for X-C. Not only is there not enough traffic to warrent this, but I know that both Alpine and Nordic skiers would learn from one another. In the end, the principles for nordic skiing are no different that downhill skiing. On thing I have learned thru the years is that most Nordic skiers really don't know how to ski. They try to snowplow on unpacked slopes [impossible]; they stay in tracks (grooves) when going down a hill into the inevitable tree; they think telemarking is hard (it's not, I teach it as the first turn, correction third after a simple step turn and a kick turn). The guy who taught me how to X-C ski didn't know himself at the time (he's a world class hang glider pilot now). I had to relearn to ski myself in Utah where the hills are steep. For now, I long to just see general discussion on the topic. As far as visiting distant places: I forward ski condition reports to friends at the IBM Research Lab in San Jose. I use some of the reports myself to visit areas. I highly appreciate your time an effort to post conditions. --eugene miya NASA Ames Res. Ctr. {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA