Jack Rabbit Ski Wax

[patrick r vigil]

Does anyone have information on the Jack Rabbit Ski Wax Company of Canada.
I've used their ski wax for several years and find it works well, but I've
run out. I know they used to be in St. Jovite, Quebec, Canada.

I would like to know if they are still around, if their products are
available, and where I might get these waxes.

Thanks

Patrick Vigil
prv...@unm.edu

[prv...@unm.edu]

I have been using a two wax system for many years which is/was
produced by the Jack Rabbit Ski Wax Company of St. Jovite, Quebec,
Canada, and have run out. Does anyone know where I might be able to
purchase more of this product?

If you know where, or know of the company please let me know.

Thanks

Patrick Vigil
prv...@unm.edu

[prv...@unm.edu]

prv...@musca.unm.edu (patrick r vigil) wrote:

Does anyone know where I might be able to buy ski wax made by the Jack
Rabbit Ski Wax Company. They used to be in St. jovite, Quebec, Canada.

Any information about their product or location would be appreciated.

Patrick Vigil
prv...@unm.edu

[Stephen Fleck]

Jack Rabbit!! Do they still make this stuff?

I recall race day about 20 years ago ie. before skating, therefore
it was a classic race. It was the Ontario University cross-country
Championships. I believe it was in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. Anyway,
it was one of those aweful days with temperatures right around zero,
a mixture of old and new snow in the track and fresh snow falling.
Nothing was working for grip. Hard wax was slipping and klister was
icing up badly. What to do? The JackRabbit, at the time was meant as a
touring wax with a two wax wet snow/dry snow system. Racers tended
to scoff at stuff like this sticking to the more elaborate wax systems
from, Swix, Rode, Rex and others. I had a stick of Jack
Rabbit wet in my wax kit. Got it as a stocking stuffer one year from
my Mother! I figured why not give it a go, so I put it on over top of the
nightmare of klister and hardwax I had on my skis and darned if it
did not work like a dream. It left a nasty stain on the clear base of
my Fischer RCS skis, but I was getting great grip and glide. Never
used it again. Although, years later I noticed that Start, started
using pine tar in some of their waxes for transitional snow
right around zero and they work really well. May be old Jack Rabbit
was on to some thing.

Steve Fleck
trio...@direct.ca

[Doug Ross]

I'm very happy to see this post. I thought I was the only one to remember
Jack Rabbit wax from the 70's. For those who don't know, it was named after
Jackrabbit Johansen, a promoter of XC skiing and fitness in Canada. Sorry I
can't help you with a source. It would be interesting to go to St. Jovite
and ask around.

[Tim Dudley]

I don't know if the company still exists, but you can get the
Jackrabbit waxes (under another name, I think) from Norway
Nordic in Baie d'Urfe, just west of Montreal.

Here are the numbers:

tel: +1 514 457 9131
fax: +1 514 457 9541

Ask for Heather, tell her who sent you...

Tim

[Sylvain Fauvel]

Tim Dudley <dudle...@xerox.com> wrote:
: In article <68uf54$o10$1...@lynx.unm.edu>, prv...@unm.edu wrote:

[- Some text removed -]

: I don't know if the company still exists, but you can get the

: Jackrabbit waxes (under another name, I think) from Norway
: Nordic in Baie d'Urfe, just west of Montreal.

: Here are the numbers:

: tel: +1 514 457 9131
: fax: +1 514 457 9541

: Ask for Heather, tell her who sent you...

: Tim

This seem odd. To my knowledge the company stopped making the wax
in the late 80's. Maybe "Norway Nordic" stocked lots of it.

The "wet" jack rabbit was known to be quite good when temperature
was around freezing point. I used to carry some when i was in
the Canadian ski patroll and offered some to any beginner skier that
seemed to have the wrong wax for the day. I still have a couple
of boxes. I never had much use for the "dry" one though.

Sylvain

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[patrick r vigil]

Sylvain Fauvel (fau...@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca) wrote:

[ATetpon]

since we are talking nostalgia here, what ever happened to the old "fall line"
orange, if i remember correctly this stuff was the greatest for cold weather,
and then there was fall line red, if you didn't mind having your white bases
stained red! i also remember using this military stuff, and then we used to
get this old "swix" in a box and the box was designed to hang from a wall and
the wax would come out of the bottom, this wax was really interesting a mix of
purple and some other color, really cool stuff! our high school had a bunch of
this and we all managed to secure a box or two at the end of the season, "oh
those were the days"

[ATetpon]

now i remember, we never did know what was in this "mystery mix" but everyone
on the team referred to as "bubble gum". when it ever got warm outside before
practice everybody would be saying "now where is the bubblegum?" *S*

[Tim Dudley]

In article <690taf$qlo$1...@Tropolix.UQSS.UQuebec.CA>, Sylvain Fauvel <fau...@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca> wrote:

>Tim Dudley <dudle...@xerox.com> wrote:
>: In article <68uf54$o10$1...@lynx.unm.edu>, prv...@unm.edu wrote:
>
>[- Some text removed -]
>
>: I don't know if the company still exists, but you can get the
>: Jackrabbit waxes (under another name, I think) from Norway
>: Nordic in Baie d'Urfe, just west of Montreal.
>
>

> This seem odd. To my knowledge the company stopped making the wax
> in the late 80's. Maybe "Norway Nordic" stocked lots of it.
>

Sylvain - the wax I saw at Norway Nordic I think was
packaged under a different name, so it's likely that it
comes from a different company, but I was assured that
it was the same wax, and it certainly smelled like it!

As someone else posted, I never had much luck with the
Jackrabbit dry wax, but the wet sure came in handy on
occasion.

Tim