Good advice, thank you and thanks for watching too. I hope you have a fantastic Easter.

I bought them a week ago and try them on a forest train in the Swiss alps. A lot of hard snow. I confirm all that you just said, particularly that it’s impossible to put them on the edges. I want to try them again with harder (mountaineering) boots than the recommended.

A lot more snow now, been snowing a lot the last few days and none of it will melt until April. Pretty decent skis, though strangely better for snowshoeing than skiing. Thank you very much for watching Laylia.

The prettyist time is about to come. When it gets sunny but there is still snow on the trees. I hope I manage to get to spend some time on the fells. Thank you very much for watching Nicole, awesome to hear from you.

That is my preferred method of stopping too. The Fins call this style of skiing sweedish cross🤣. Everything bad has to be either Sweedish or Russian in Finland. Norway gets off very lightly.

Really good around trees and in difficult terrain. Thanks for watching buddy.

Sorry I really didn't notice it until I was editing. I would have filmed the whole thing again if I had realised the video was going to get so many views.

🤣🤣Same here! But I liked the video anyway.

These aren't the most fun ones because of the skins. Not so fast, pretty practical though. You seem to have snow, do you use snow shoes? Thanks for watching Travis. Hope you are having a great weekend.

@@KuukkeliBushcraft I have only ever dabbled with snowshoes. Typically a good pair of snow boots gets you by here as long as you read the day carefully. But recently warmer winter temperatures has me looking into a good set.

@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman we have very deep snow here so you need snowshoes or skis. Very annoying is the spring though when most of the snow is gone but there are still deep patches.

@@KuukkeliBushcraft there are definitely places here that you can't go without some kind of snowshoe or ski. Unless the snow is frozen very hard. Which used to be more common. Spring here is crazy dangerous I hear you Tim! The snow over the bushes will be hollow underneath and you can take a good fall if you're not careful!

I shudder to think how much skis must cost in Norway😂. The price of a beer in Tromso makes me want to cry. The border closed yesterday and we have had a bunch of Norse raiders emptying our supermarket while they can still get cheap meat and alcohol. These bindings seem really good. Nice and easy to use and you can wear most boots with them. So long as the sole is not too stiff.

@@KuukkeliBushcraft I feel a bit discriminated as I live about as far from any border possible. I think free weekly train tickets to Oslo should be a fair compensation? Socialism an all.... :)

@@ThePreparedNorseman sounds fair but only if I get free tickets to Helsinki. Not that I want to go there, I just want free stuff😂. Looks like all borders are shut now anyway 😭.

I was terrible at it at first😂. Still not fantastic but I can get around at least. I don't suppose there is that much skiing to do where you live. Thank you very much for watching. Have a fantastic weekend.

Thank you very much Dav, glad you found it interesting. Hope you are having a great weekend.

@@KuukkeliBushcraft ...:-)...

I think the OACs will be great for learning. I also think that you should try to get some kind of instruction from someone and that you should if you get the opportunity try some other skis. It is a little too easy just to walk with the skin based. It is good to learn to glide. Where the skin based exell is off track where it is not possible to glide anyway. Hope this helps and thank you very much for watching my video.

What with that speed demon 😂. We do ski with the dogs but you run the risk of injuring the dog if you have to stop suddenly. I am not a great skier and Uni is the strongest and fastest out of our females. I am also very cautious when it comes to anything that may injure the dogs. With these skis however being so short it might be something I am willing to try. Glad you enjoyed the video Scott, thank you very much for watching.

No I belive your right, I think Arctixsport make something similar without the skins. The skins do help a lot for the up hills though. Expecially when you don't have much space. I generally use a old model of Salomon back country skis (again borrowed from work). X adventure parabolic skis. They don't make them anymore but they are really short and excellent on hills but nowhere near as good as the OACs on deep soft snow. They have been on a couple of my videos ("changing my snowshoes for skis" was one. Thanks for watching again Alexander. Hope you are well.

You can only get these to go fast if you fire them from a cannon😂. They are really as much like snowshoes as they are like skis. The skins prevent you from getting any real speed up. Thanks for watching.

@@KuukkeliBushcraft You just saved me money and a big disappointment. Thank you!

@@deltafour1212 your welcome, that's what these reviews are for. Maybe the review could have been a little more thorough if you had to ask that in the comments 😂. At least we got there in the end.

@@KuukkeliBushcraft To tell you the truth, I never watched the video. I couldn't get past the gag factor of the snot sickle in the beginning. I watched it finally and you answered all my questions, except one. What's a folly ski? LOL!

Yes those are our boys and girls making a racket in the background. I often play howling recordings and puppy noises to the dogs because I find their reactions fascinating and sometimes hilarious. I got the Idea from when I lived in Spain. I lived on site and we had two colossal mastiff guard dogs. One of wich quickly became my best mate. He was asleep outside my door when I was watching a video about wolves. The wolves started howling, I thought he was going to rip the door of the hinges. He went crazy (Spanish mastiffs were bred to protect against wolves). I don't have my own snowmobile, if I did I would use it a lot, I prefer skiing but you can get to some really cool remote locations very quickly with a snowmobile. We do use them at work quite a lot. I only take one home when I am taking firewood back with me. As we use them as backup when sledding and for opening the tracks they are needed daily at the farm so I can't really just borrow one. You should try Beasly with some doggy noises, it can be fun. The snow is about knee deep now and we have had less snow than normal this year. It's just not warm enough for any of it to melt until April so it just builds up. Have known it to snow in August here.

@@KuukkeliBushcraft Knee deep is a lot of snow compared to the bare ground here all winter mate Lol! My neighbors growing up had mastiff dogs and they were massive, they were ok with me and my sisters cause they knew us but were really good guard dogs for the family that owned them, they bond hard with their family!! I think I remember you telling me that story once, I think LOL! Have a great week mate!! Oh and I figured you didn't use the snowmobile because of fuel reasons and cost, no clue how good they are regarding that?

😂 It is actually just moisture from my breath. Don't look too classy though does it. If it was green it would be worse. Thanks for watching mate. You can get a bit of glide like on skis so far better on downhills and where yo are on some kind of a track than snowshoes. . Not as good on some uphill sections.

@@KuukkeliBushcraft it was one of those," does he know it's there moments"! Could not stop looking at it 😆🤣..... give me your address again, I lost it....... Grizz 🐻

Really quite a nice temperature here at the moment. Cold enough that all of the wet stays frozen but not so cold that you have to wear so much clothes that you can't move. The good thing about cold is you put more clothes on and it's OK. If it's too hot, there is not so much you can do about it. Really looking forward to seeing some sunshine though. Sun and snow is a great combination (until everything starts to get slushy). Thanks for watching Tony mate. Hope all is well, and that you have air conditioning.

@@KuukkeliBushcraft Thanks Tim. Yes to the AC and we have pool. It’s nice when the seasons change. Dog days of summer here but I shouldn’t complain. People travel to Queensland for the ☀️

It's not just French people who struggle with my accent then😂

@@KuukkeliBushcraft No its ok just play last cca 10 seconds with subtitles and read what you see :D i mean backround noise is sometimes included in subtitles as spoken words... Just do it and see its funny context to me...

Thanks buddy, I would probably have tried to film it again without the snotsicle if I had realised that this video was going to get thousands of views.

They are pretty expensive, skis aren't cheap anyway here in Finland. I guess one of the things you are paying for is the incorporated skins in the base but also the fancy bindings. As for the traditional Siberian skis I would love to give those a try and even to have a go at making some one day. The modern version does seem to be a lot more readily available though. Thank you very much for watching. I wish you a very happy Christmas.

Sounds like an interesting invention. Mechanical things that flip down may be a bit fiddly with snow, ice and cold fingers I suppose. Thanks for watching mate.

Yes mate, I always have one or two of those going on in the winter. Not too bad unless they freeze to my beard so I can't open my mouth 😂.