Speaking of Finnish-made items: there's a C&V bike made in Finland advertised on my local CL that I have been trying in vain to get a friend interested in, because her family is from Finland. Unlike us on C&V, she's not interested in owning a road bike, or +1 bike. Regarding the C&V wooden skis -- in the 70's, she went to college at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan; she said she realized she was really Up North and in the sticks when the daily local radio weather reports included which color ski wax to use that day.