Ski en Norvege

#1

Posté en tant qu’invité par Xav:

Bonjour,

Je crois savoir que les Norvegiens utilisent des skis qui sont entre des skis de rando et des skis de fond…
Si vous pouvez m en dire plus…

Merci d avance

Xav

#2

Posté en tant qu’invité par alex:

Tu parles du telemark ?

http://aftelemark.free.fr/historique.html
http://telemark.umx.net/index.htm
http://www.telemark.ch
y a aussi des trucs sur MountainZone mais je trouve pas ce que je veux :
http://www.mountainzone.com

Y a plein de trucs sur Google (surtout si tu lis le norvégien).

alex

#3

Posté en tant qu’invité par Jostein:

Yes, that is true - more or less.

There is a very long tradition for skiing in the mountains and wilderness, in fact several hundred years (some archelogical excavations in fact indicate more than 1000 years). This is the original form of skiing that Norwegians exported to the Alps, and North America at the beginning of the last century.

This skiing was not so much for pleasure as a means for personal transportation and hunting. Skiing for pleasure and competiton (at the beginning mostly juping) may be around 150 years old. Of cource the original skis were made of wood, fairly solid and heavy. This is the mother of to-days telemark ski. Telemark is by the way the name of the region were skiing as a sport originated in the 19 century (incidently the region I am coming from). Telemark skis, or in most cases a lighter version than the one you see on the pistes in France is the preferred ski for mountain and wilderness touring It may or may not have a metal edge. As the mountains are more gentle and rounded than in the Alps, a randonnee ski would be highly impractical, and much to heavy. Still a few people use randonneeequipment for top ascensions, and there are som beutiful tops to climb. Most of those people, like myself, have picked up the taste for this during trips to the alps.

If, however you ski out in the woods around the towns,there are in most cases a very well groomed network of trails, around Oslo (where I live now) several hundred kilometers. In this case it makes more sense to use a light cross-country ski (in French ski de fond), or if you are really good a competition ski, but in most cases you use traditional technique, not skating.

To sum up there ia a wery wide spectrum of skis(weight, withs, edges) aiming at different kinds of conditions and skiing capabilities with suitable bindings and boots. Between cross-country competition and randonnee, I guess it would be about 4 or 5.

Jostein