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Focusing on the tracks of skis and sticks you can accurately determine the method and style of walking, turns, ascents and descents.

A good skier usually walks sideways, with a two-step move or with a skate. Simultaneous walking (walking with simultaneous use of poles) is used most often by poorly trained skiers, with severe fatigue (sometimes with poor gliding). A good skier has a much longer stride length (measured by the distance between the tracks of the poles), the track is narrow and even. The track of an inexperienced skier is unequal in width, uneven; the skier, as a rule, drags his poles in the snow after a push and places them wider, as he stands unsteadily on his skis. The skier's experience is very clearly visible when studying the tracks on turns, during descents, and ascents.

The number of skiers who have passed can be determined by the number of stick marks, the multiplicity of ski marks, the depth and hardness of the ski track.

The direction of movement of the skier is determined by the tracks on turns, ascents, descents, and by the slope of the hole from the end of the pole when resting on the snow. If there is a restrictive ring on the ski pole, then the depression will be greater in the direction of movement. On the track there are prints of the back of the skis in the form of the letter P, with the open part facing the direction of movement. On herringbone climbs, the large depression of the ski edge into the snow on the side of the direction of movement is clearly visible.

Currently, in all countries, skiers use mainly the following types of skis:

sports and running (racing), width 66-72 mm, length up to 220 cm;
tourist (universal), this type also includes the so-called army skis, they are 10-20 cm shorter than cross-country skis and 2-3 cm wider;
forest (hunting) skis are even shorter, their length is 180-190 cm, but they are much wider than cross-country and touring skis (105-115 mm);
children's (arbitrary sample) and home-made skis.

Snowmobile tracks are analyzed similarly to tracks of tracked vehicles, while the front puddle guide leaves tracks similar to ski tracks during a smooth descent from the mountain. However, a caterpillar always passes over them and they are of little use.

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