Cross Country Ski Waxing and Base Prep

Cleaning Wax Brushes: Brush in the dishwasher

1/29/2009 - By Mike Muha

Today we bring out the big gun: a large home appliance! What happens when you try cleaing your ski wax brush in the dishwasher?

Weekend wax recommendations

1/29/2009 - By Mike Muha

Wax recommendations from Fast Wax, Solda, Swix and Toko for the weekend's Michigan Cup (and other) races. Check back for updates!

Cleaning Wax Brushes: Vacuum the brush

1/28/2009 - By Mike Muha

Here's a really efficient way to clean your ski wax brushes: Use a vacuum cleaner! And there's no messy cleanup...

Cleaning Wax Brushes: Brush a wire shelf

1/27/2009 - By Mike Muha

The brush-a-wire-shelf method of keeping ski wax brushes clean is similar to slap-and-scrap, but requires an additional piece of equipment.

Cleaning Wax Brushes: The slap and scrape method

1/26/2009 - By Mike Muha

The why and how of keping wax brushes clean. Over the next four articles, I'll show four different ways to keep your brushes clean, in order of increasing mechanization. Today: The slap and scrape method.

Weekend wax recommendations for the Noquemmanon

1/22/2009 - By Mike Muha

Wax recommendations from Fast Wax, Solda, Swix and Toko for the Noquemanon Ski Marathon. Check back for updates!

Snow Versus Air Temperature - Why?

1/21/2009 - By Ian Harvey

Your hot wax products should be chosen according to snow temperature. It is not always possible to establish the snow temperature in advance. Is there a way I can approximate the snow temperature from an accurate air temperature reading at the venue?

Wax Recommendations for TC Sprints, Jan 20

1/19/2009 - By Pete Edwards

Swix Traverse City Sprint wax recommendation for this Tuesday's sprint race.

2009 US Nationals and Swix LF3 Cold Powder

1/16/2009 - By Swix Technical Team

2009 US Nationals proved to be some of the coldest racing we have experienced in a long time. The race organizers did a great job, but the weather just did not cooperate. The result was two of four events were cancelled due to cold temperatures.

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US Nationals Waxing Commentary

1/16/2009 - By Bryan Fish

Head Coach Bryan Fish of CXC Team talks about his waxing experience at US Nationals. CXC member Caitlin Compton won the women's 5k skate and Matt Liebsch finished 3rd in the men's 10k skate, and were observed as having had extremely fast skis.