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  1. david-d

    Ermine skates: made in Alaska

    There iis a new Nordic Skate maker in Anchorage, Alaska, USA- Ermine Skate https://ermineskate.com/
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    Nor-easter Natural Ice videos

    Hej från Kanada We now have a skating club "Nor-easter Natural Ice" in Nova Scotia, Canada. on facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/470362566805242/ Here are 2 video clips by Joel Hornborg (the founder of NNI) Skating in Blekinge 2016-2017 with LSS...
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    Stöpishål och fraktalmönster

    Hej från Kanada Here is a technical article : "The Formation of Star Patterns on Lake Ice", by Victor Tsai. http://www.whoi.edu/fileserver.do?id=21243&pt=10&p=17213 (900KM PDF) Also, Bob Dill of Vermont has studied "ice octopus patterns"...
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    Skating in Alaska

    Hej, There is no ice here in Nova Scotia, Canada but near Anchorage, Alaska, people are now skating. There is a Facebook page for the Anchorage area NordicSkate group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1646016375653292/ Here are some videos from their group last season (2015-2016): Palmer...
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    book: ICE PHYSICS FOR RECREATIONAL ICE-USERS

    Tack Per och Thure I studied mathematics and physics, icluding calculus, differential equations etc in Uuniversity but that was a long time ago:). I just ordered both of Mårten's books, "Ice Physics" and "Stora Boken" from bokus.com. I bought "När isen lockar" from Bokus several years...
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    book: ICE PHYSICS FOR RECREATIONAL ICE-USERS

    Hej långfärdsskrinnare, Does anyone know anything about this English language book? ICE PHYSICS FOR RECREATIONAL ICE-USERS : some thermal and mechanical properties of natural ice covers http://www.bokus.com/bok/9789175751627/ author: Mårten Ajne (2013) ISBN: 9789175751627 Ice Physics...
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    First ice in Nova Scotia, Canada

    On Dec 1 and 2 we skated on Gaspereau Lake, Nova Scotia . Photos at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_dermott/sets/72157632149995812/ David Dermott; Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
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    New book: FREEZING OF LAKES AND EVOLUTION OF THEIR ICE COVER

    I found a notice about this new textbook from Oslo tour-skate group facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Skiforeningens-tursk%C3%B8ytegruppe/288991427787989 There is new lake text-book coming out next spring FREEZING OF LAKES AND EVOLUTION OF THEIR ICE COVER...
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    Film: Skating the Glassy Mountains

    Film: "SKATING THE GLASS MOUNTAINS" :cool: (Sierra Nevada, California) Part1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et3-u8TbTT0...
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    Ice in Nova Scotia, Canada

    Season 2011-2012 The ice season was late starting in Nova Scotia but There was some nice ice last week. some photos at:: http://www.dermott.ca/ice12/icefotos.html The Halifax Commons 400m speedskating oval is open again this winter. http://www.flickr.com/groups/savetheoval/pool/...
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    Skridsko i USA

    Hej, The Vermont Nordic Skating group is about 1000 km from me, but I read their reports. Pam, who planned the Plurrövning, lived for about 10 years near Kristianstad and was a member of the club (KRIS or SIK ?) there. Report of plurrövning...
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    Lake Ice: Iskunskap articles in English

    Bob Dill (ice-yacht sailor for over 20 years) of the Vermont Nordic Skating Group has just launched a new LAKE ICE website with articles about ice properties: http://lakeice.squarespace.com/ The Lake Ice site is in an early draft state and Bob would like suggestions, corrections...
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    Ice in Nova Scotia, Canada

    Hej, sorry for writing in English- Jag kan läsa svenska Good news: There is a forecast for skate-able ice in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on Dec 15! This winter there will be a 400m refrigerated oval in the middle of the city. It will be the only 400 m oval (of any sort) east of Quebec...
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    Link to Ishandboken @ luleå university

    It seems that Luleå University has recently changed its URL to www.ltu.se. The link to Lennart Franssons "Ishandboken" http://www.luth.se/depts/lib/coldtech/ct94-1.html gives this: * Error 410 Gone * Adressen www.luth.se har upphört att existera, använd adressen * www.ltu.se...
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    New skating movie (nederlansk)

    I found this on the Vermont skating group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VTNordicSkating) There is a new movie (in Nederlansk) being released on Dec 13 "De Hel van 63" http://www.dehelvan63.nl http://imdb.com/title/tt1156132/ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hel_van_'63 The...
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    Kärnis = Black Ice (English)

    That is heartwood in English, and that is a very probable source of the term kärnis. Treecutters probably cut blocks ice with saws and noticed the layering of ice and compared it to the layers of wood in the tree "soft wood on the surface and hard wood underneath" The "kärnis" would be the best...
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    Kärnis = Black Ice (English)

    :) Sorry, I should have mentioned that I just started on the English wiki article, to correspond to the Swedish, Bokmål and Nynorsk wikis. I was looking for for references to cite. Thanks Johan, for that link. I have seen that Manual before but the link I have to it is "dead". I also...
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    Kärnis = Black Ice (English)

    The discussion about ice words on https://dev.utsidan.se/forum/threads/53947/ is interesting. I am trying to build my own ice vocabulary in English, which is difficult, since we lack good words for ice types. Most ice words in English are for glaciers and sea-ice, which are not always correct...
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    Hjälp att definiera "långfärdsskridskoåkning"

    Thank you Thure, I've added that sentence and put it all back in the English Tour Skating article. But now I see that the EXTERNAL LINKS and LINKS TO FOTOALBUMS are gone from the Swedish WP article with a comment "Wikipedia är inte en länksamling" Photo albums are very informative and...
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    Hjälp att definiera "långfärdsskridskoåkning"

    Help with definition of English Tour Skating Congratulations to Krister on the good Wikipedia article "Långfärdsskridsoåkning" There is even a bigger problem on the definition of this in English, since almost nobody has ever heard of it. What should we call this "Long distance Skating on...

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