Day 6 - another warm day

Yet another day when the temperature goes above zero. After yesterday's problems with wax in the afternoon, the question was what to do with the strategy today. We had only one point - 19km out of 61km where we met up with the bus. Thus I had a high risk, lower effort, strategy of staying on waxed skis or a lower risk, higher effort strategy of changing to waxless skis at this point.

So I took the lower risk strategy, as our bus guide had not managed to get me a wax to use around zero. But I can honestly say that there is a considerable effort differential. Instead of maintaining say 10km/hr on good waxed skis, waxless manage about 8km/hr. As well as this, they require probably 20-30% more effort to cover the same distance.

Tomorrow we cannot ski all the way, as the rivers are not solid enough ice - since one river crossing is several kilometers, it is quite spectacular, but not one to be undertaken lightly.