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Elliot dropped off a set of Salomon Supercross and Scott Aztecs for a service to celebrate the 4 days of snow we had in Scotland in January.

Both skis are a little older, enjoying their golden years as it were, but that really appeals to me. Skiing is a pretty environmentally unfriendly activity at the best of times, and me refusing to use forever chemicals like hydrophobic wax finishers doesn’t really make much difference, but Elliot keeping skis going for ten or fifteen years is admirable. Especially with those lovely, easy to work on all-black bases and edges that are broadly where they were on leaving the factory.

In fact both sets of skis also had pretty much flat bases, not always a given these days, so they only needed minor filling to some base dings, edging to original specs and they were ready to go: