This company http://www.everslide.com/productse/ski_hills.html responded to my very recent inquiry that their alpine plastic mats will in fact work for skate skiing.
They also said they have a mat that works for classical. Why they don't tout this on their Web site is a mystery to me. Anyone have any experience with skiing on this type of surface? When it actually snows, woudl the snow just slide off (in which case we'd need to get Parks to allow us to cut a separate trail)? How durable are these things? They said if we give them some specific width and length of trail we would like to cover, they would give us a ballpark figure on how much a synthetic ski surface would cost. I suspect it's a small fortune, but if all club members contributed one half of what we spent traveling far afield to find snow this winter, we might scratch up a good downpayment. If they could build a plant in the US that uses recycled fiber, the US could meet EPA's recently announced goal for reducing the amount of old carpeting that goes into landfills. What a partnership that could be! Might be far more costly than snow making equipment, initially, but would require no one to be out all night. Would be interesting to compare the two full-cycle costs and benefits. Any members of the Board interested in pursuing this? We could have a form of skiing "24-7-365." > ---------- > From: Pure Sweet Honey Farm[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [XC] elver > > Skied elver at noon today. Flat areas are not good or non existant. > However you can ski up and down most of the big hill and the snow is > pretty good. This makes for 2 way traffic so look out! As you ski think > about snowmaking and what we could do with a few dumptrucks full of snow. > Also think if you are willing to help make or spread snow and maybe pay > more for an elver ski pass. > > willi van haren > _______________________________________________ http://www.MadNorSki.org/ XC mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/xc
