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Reminds me of a scene in "Happy People", a documentary about life in the Russian taiga, where the hunter fashioned a pair of skis by splitting a tree.

Link if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cPhWpprLmM

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The word ski even etymologically comes from a split piece of wood. The cognates in German (Scheit) and apparently also Icelandic (skið) and English (shide) actually still mean that.

(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...)

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