Cuthead Cabin at last!
Trip date: Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Submitted by Mike W
Particpants:
Me and my Sporten Explorer 64 "Cuthead Cabin" Special Edition skis
Discussion:
Cuthead Cabin is about 10km beyond Stoney Creek Cabin on the Cascade Valley Trail. I tried this trip in January 2021 on my skinny skin skis, but had to turn back 4km short of the Cabin. My skinny skis weren't up to the trailbreaking and were bending at an alarming angle into the weakening snowpack. This year I posted a comment on Sara's Jan 2 report of her Cuthead Cabin trip (https://www.skierroger.ca/index.php?content=showski_special&id=2520 ) : "I clearly have a gaping deficiency in my quiver of skis, between my 44mm track skis and my 89mm light touring skis. I definitely need a pair of metal-edged light touring skis just wide enough to fit in the tracks. I'll nickname them my Cuthead Cabin skis!". Well, my quiver deficiency got filled Sunday on a visit to Switching Gear in Canmore where I found the ideal pair of skis, recently retired from Wilson Sports' rental fleet. Sporten Explorer 64, 175cm, 64-52-60mm profile, full metal edge, and skin kick zone. Apparently 2020/21 vintage. They came with Rossignol Turnamic Race NNN bindings (photo 1).