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A ski dating back 1300 years has finally emerged from a Norwegian glacier. The skis partner was found in 2014 and the archeology team have been monitoring the spot since waiting to discover its partner.
The 'new' ski is in better condition and still has its binding in place. It seems to also have answered the question as to whether fur was used on the underside to aide cross country travel...
Link to the article here
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Interesting but not prehistoric
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Even as those photos where being taken there'll be a man approaching wearing elasticated waist trousers in taup (taup is not a colour, just exsists in the fluff collected from tumble dryer filter) and nasal delivery, to claim "I wouldn't use those, they'll have gone noodly by now" and "I bet those will make your knees ace on piste in that width" 
Joking aside, they are really a fascinating find though. And ultra cool.
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Sad thing is, melting ice revealed this. Climate change and all that is a barsteward.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It's not just melting ice. It's a glacier, so moves slowly downhill, taking anything with it. This is a relatively small glacier on global terms, so moves extremely slowly. It would have worked it's way out eventually, even if the glacier was expanding, as this comes from above.
Fascinating how well ice preserves stuff it collects. Be a great find if the owner of them shows up it the next few years.
Interesting to note their disappointment when they found no trace of fur on the bases. Doesn't mean they didn't use fur for uphill, just that he might have been going downhill when he lost them.
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| brianatab wrote: |
| Be a great find if the owner of them shows up it the next few years. |
True, although I doubt he'll be reclaiming the skis.... 
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Bet the rental Co won't give the deposit back.
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@harrim51, 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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At that rate the Volkl P9 I lost on Glacier Pers in 1989 can be reunited with its partner around 3280, if not before…
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Grinning, I'd hope that improvements in base materials and waxes would mean better glide compared to the recently found ski. So maybe you should check in 3200 or so, just in case.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@mgrolf I reckon the cracked edges on the P9s would slow ‘em up some.
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@holidayloverxx, by definition, technically it is pre-historic, as no written record exists of bronze age life in either pre-viking age tribes or the indigenous Sami tribes of the area, both tending to use oral traditions common to more nomadic hunter/gatherer peoples. Effectively a people's 'prehistoric era' ends with the introduction of writing and happens for different communities at different times. For example, some remote uncontacted tribes in the Amazon can still be classed as Pre-Historic.
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