The West Yellowstone Ski Festival is finally kicking into high gear and I busted out my new Salomon skis this afternoon for a skate ski and was starting to feel like a real professional skier. I had one ski from one pair and one ski from another pair and I was getting a feel for them and how they compared in soft snow and generally being a very sophisticated skier. Except that with all that was on the schedule today I never got around to scraping them so they were still travel waxed. Hmm, at least I looked like a very sophisticated skier.