Advice and maintenance for ski touring skins. As all ski mountaineers well know, climbing skins are stuck to the bottom of the ski during an ascent, for they enable a smooth forward glide but impe any ...

Climbing skins can make or break your day in the backcountry, so it’s important that you have the best climbing skins to ...

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If you're a resort skier looking to dip a toe into ski touring or backcountry skiing, you'll first need to pick up some specialty equipment. At the top of that gear list (after avalanche beacon, ...

Ski mountaineering goes beyond traditional ski touring. It’s a demanding contest with the mountain, the weather and one’s own limits. Anyone who has ever climbed through fresh snow on skins knows the ...

To most skiers, that 15 or 20 minutes on the chairlift provides the perfect chance to relax, grab a quick nap or chat up a stranger. But an increasing number of skiers looking for a workout are ...

I had to get rid of my old climbing skins late last winter because they were turning my skis into flypaper. I lived in fear of sticking to the snow rather than gliding down it. The folks at Cripple ...

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Ski touring skins: Repair Kit 1 multi-purpose knife with pliers, screwdriver etc; extremely useful for mending the bindings 2 wire; to fix a binding, ski boot or climbing skin 3 sticky tape; the tape ...