More reminiscing from the visit at my Parents.
My dad still holds on to his old wooden skies.
They hold important part of the family history: my Sis and I played and skied on them when we were kids. My Sis Lula once severly "hugged the tree" skiing down the hill...
They look a bit like this, it's a vintage photo from the 40-ies someone posted on eBay:
This is such a well sought item among vintage bloggers, especially Scandinavians.
The often hang it prominently in their modern or rustic fashionable dwellings.
I did not have a chance to take a pic, there were in a darker spot of the storage, but here is a beautiful film on the traditional making of wooden skies.
Don't mind it's in Norwegian, you will understand every bit....
Ole Kristian Ødegård makes skis the old way.
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This vid shows you that there is no excuse for those who want to ski, have no $$, are in the wilderness away from sport stores, have no time to shop but have the following:
a shed, a pot of boiling water, a saw, plainer, sandpaper and alike...
