BARGAIN BIN!!! - 180cm Esko Järvinen Wood Cross-Country Skis - "Phenowood" Low-Maintenance Base - UNUSED - 1970sEsko Jrvinen was already an accomplished ski racer when he decided to apply his knowledge to the manufacture of skis. Based in Lahti, Finland, Jrvinen made skis and poles for both racers and ski tourers. This pair hails from the 1970s and features an attempt by Jrvinen to solve the biggest problem that plagued wood base skis: how to keep them free of glide sucking moisture. "Phenowood" is likely some epoxy based product that was applied to a hickory

Size: 190cm

HIGHLY desirable birch base

Couple of comments - the edges are lignostone (compressed beech) and due to the use of hickory

They also play this game called bandy

A missing section of ligno on the outside of one of the skis

If you could only teleport yourself back to that wonderful visit you recently took to Lillehammer

Base: birch

you can reminisce

"Tur Langrenn" model

These classic black handle

While we are not speed skating experts

on the coast a bit north of Bergen and south of Trondheim