Siberian trapper making wooden skis.
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Here’s an excerpt video from a documentary about Siberian trappers called “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga”.
The documentary follows a trapper through each season as he prepares his traps, tends to huts, gathers food for winter etc.. I watched it all on Netflix as I am intrigued by how people get on with life in adverse conditions.
What stood out though and what I wanted to share was the way the trapper went about making some wooden skis for himself. It shows him harvesting a tree and riving the wood in winter, letting it season and then working on it in summer. With a chainsaw, wedge, jack plane and a jig to bend the wood, he makes his own skis.
It is refreshing to see someone just making things well. Not pretty, but functional.
Also, unlike me, I doubt the guys is on the internet all day obsessing over sharpening methods or collecting vintage saws.
Anyway, I thought you might like it.
Thanks for posting, brought back memories of when we still used wooden x-country skis.
cheers