Gaffa tape and fir branches – then you have everything you need – Telemarksavisa

TELEMARK: Are you traveling and struggling slippery skis, or have forgotten the skins home, do not despair. There is advice.

A prerequisite is that you have gaffer tape with you in your backpack. Gaffa tape is perhaps not the first thing you think of when you pack your backpack for traveling, but it should perhaps be. At least if you listen to the advice of Geir Wagnild in State Forests.

– Always have a roll gaffer tape on a ski tour, it gets you often need, he concludes.

And if you love long walks outside track network may be well worth having a roll tape in the bag. The solid tape combined with fir branches gives you the freedom to nail stick.

Those who are fond of long walks generally have a couple skins in your backpack. These means that you can step right up a hill without slipping, but what do you do when you have forgotten traps home or traps being destroyed? Wagnild know advice.

– Forgot skins, or did not have any, you can easily create your own nature. Cutting of two suitable fir branches twigs and tape them on under each ski approximately centrally, says Wagnild.

With a piece of tape in front and one behind, sitting spruces well.

– Add the twigs like that spruces going backwards. Then you also slightly gliding on skis, he said.

And you need a guide on how to actually implement this trick you can watch the video at the top of the case.