Ski Wax Selection

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General

Selecting the right "wax of the day" for grip, glide or both is key to having a great skiing day. Whether your day is a relaxing ski in the snowy woods or racing hard on a trail, the wax matters.

Ideally before selecting the wax you will know the air temperature, snow temperature, humidity, snow condition, etc. A small pocket thermometer can help you. Any thermometer on the wall of a building will likely be reading above what the real temperature is. So remember it's easier to put a colder wax on first and then move to a warmer wax than it is the other way around.

Listed below we have wax selection guides for Ski*go, Vauhti and Toko ski waxes. Additionally you can use the interactive (web based) wax selection tools.

Helpful Hints

The guides below from the wax companies are good guidelines for selecting a wax. They have invested a lot of time and effort in these guides because they want you to be statisfied. However, conditions do not always match the guides perfectly. You may need to adjust your selection based on actually using the wax.

If you find you need to adjust your wax selection from the guides here are some hints to help you move in the right direction:

with fresher, well defined snow move colder
with older, granular or machine groomed snow move warmer
with a higher density snow pack move warmer
with a higher humidity move warmer or use a wax with more fluorocarbon
with a lower humidity move colder or use a wax with less fluorocarbon
with very old, crystal-like snow add some very hard wax (blue or green) to overcome the additional abrasiveness

Interactive Wax Selection Guides

From SkiWax.ca try using the Interactive Grip/Kick Wax Selector and Interactive Glide Wax Selector. Based on manufacturer information and some trail testing. We're working at refining this tool so if you have any suggestions please let us know!

Toko and Vauhti used to have interactive on-line wax selection tools. But currently they do not (and haven't for a couple of years). We don't know why these tools went away. But if they come back we'll add a link here for them.

Other Wax Guides: Cookbooks

In addition to the wax guides there are also some "Cookbooks" provided for certain waxes. These cookbooks provide more detail for the application and use for these waxes. The cookbooks so far are: Vauhti Fox Fluoro Powders, Vauhti IR Spektra Glide, Vauhti Fox Gels, Toko JetStream Glide, Vauhti Teho Grip.

Ski*go Glide Wax Guide

This is the racing guide selection.

Ski*go Kick Wax Guide

This is the racing guide selection. [Image to come]

Toko Glide Guides

The leftmost column indicates the snow type/age.

Vauhti Glide Guide

This is for Vauhti glide wax selection:

Vauhti Grip Guides

This is the Vauhti Grip Guide for Fluoro-based grip and klister waxes:

Vauhti Grip and Klister Wax Selection Guide

This is the Vauhti Grip Gide for Vauhti Tar grip and regular klister waxes:

Vauhti Tar Grip and Klister Wax Selection Guide

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