BNS Wax Recommendation
Great Bear Chase
Calumet, MI 3/10/12
Event Information
The Great Bear Chase is a 50k marathon in Calumet, Michigan. The event offers both skate and classic races, as well as shorter distances.
For more information click here.
Weather
From NOAA.gov
Friday: Snow showers likely and areas of blowing snow before 10am, then patchy blowing snow and a slight chance of snow showers between 10am and noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 23. Wind chill values between -5 and 5. Blustery, with a northwest wind 20 to 25 mph decreasing to between 10 and 15 mph. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. Southwest wind between 5 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 43. Breezy, with a southwest wind between 15 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Recommendation
We recommend the following:
Base Layer: Ski*Go LF Graphite
Race Paraffin: Holmenkol Matrix Blue for early starters, Holmenkol Matrix Red for later starters. Ski*Go Orange could also run well.
Fluoro Powder: Ski*Go C105 Powder or Holmenkol Mid 08
Topcoat: Ski*Go C105 Block or Holmenkol Mid 08 Block
Structure: Finite V04
note: BNS imports Holmenkol and SkiGo waxes, and also sells waxes from Swix, Toko, Rode, Solda, Rex, Guru, Innovax, Magnar and others. We search for the fastest waxes for our customers and our testing is professional, objective and transparent. We make our best effort to test what we think is the best from each brand. However, given that we are testing more options from Holmenkol and SkiGo, there is a bias toward those brands. With this full disclosure, you can assess the legitimacy of our testing yourself. Visit
Swix and
Toko for their official recommendations. If you have any questions please contact us.