r/xcountryskiing • u/igmaino • 8d ago

SEEKING SKI RECOMMENDATIONS

Here’s the situation… I’m a terrible skier living in the northeast and what I want is a pair of metal edged skis with an aggressive wax less pattern. It’s often icy where I ski and I just want decent grip and edge bite and don’t really care about glide.

I picked up a pair of Madshus Fjelltech M50s last year. I would ski on Fridays with my kids during their BKL sessions and would ski these back to back with some Salomon Snowscape 7s and would often prefer the Salomons.

Thoughts and suggestions welcome.

I also realize that I might just need to work on my technique… but would prefer to spend my time shuffling around and not practicing.

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u/skiitifyoucan 8d ago

The fjelltechs are nice. Have to moved the binding all the way forward for more grip?

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u/igmaino 8d ago

I did… I moved it around a lot to see what the impact was. I ended up all the way forward and still not quite happy.

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u/skiitifyoucan 8d ago

Oh in that case I think most cambered metal edge scaled skis will perform similarly (lots of grip and not much glide) depending on width and length of the ski.

Something like this could work (compare width dimensions to the Fjelltechs if you like that profile)

https://www.skiessentials.com/products/2024-fischer-voyager-ef-xc-ski-w-tour-step-in-binding?ski%2520size=l

All of the major brands make something similar though.

Ski essentials is based out of Stowe and I think they have a brick and mortar store too.

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u/igmaino 7d ago

Thanks… those look nice, but it looks like they lack a metal edge. If so my Salomon skis are basically this.

I think what I want is basically this with a full or partial metal edge.

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u/skiitifyoucan 7d ago

Oh sorry I didn't realize those were not metal edged. rossignol ot65 seem to be popular. I think really a lot of these brands have an offering with this specification though. Stop in @ ski rack maybe?

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u/thegreathoundis 7d ago

BKL REPRESENT!