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dardruba wrote:

Wow, such an interesting response. Thank You. I wish you well in your
enterprise.

No problem.

Indeed. I still think you _will_ have to reduce your length though, 2 m
with fixed end-points (wheels) will make steering extremely hard,
besides adding a lot of weight.

I have one final question, should things work out for you and you get
that build up of skills and the opportunity to ski on snow, where would
you aim for and what sort of terrain would offer you fulfillment?
Since you have knowledge of skiing would you like to be out along the
canal towpath, around the city park or on machine prepared forest trails?

Probably none of those :-) 35 years ago, I used to be a fairly
good cross-country skier by UK standards of the time (i.e. dire),
and did up to 30 km a day on the Hardangervidda. I would like
to do some of that again, though probably less vigorous, and
probably elsewhere.

Hmmm, I wonder how close we ever came to meeting at that time:

My family has had (a) mountain cabin(s) near the SE end of
Hardangervidda since 1967, I have done a _lot_ of skiing in these areas. :-)

(The longest single trip was the 8-day/300 km trailbreaking we did just
before the Lillehammer olympics in 1994, where we skied from Morgedal to
Lillehammer via Møsvatn, Kalhovd, Solheimsstulen/Vasstulan, Tunhovd,
Smedsgården (between Nesbyen and Gol), Strandefjorden (near Fagernes)
and Synnhovd.)

Terje
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