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 match your priorities. This may sound dramatic, but it’s true. Skins, strips of ...

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, ...

When I first started backcountry skiing, I remember how frequently I ended up in a frozen panicked state each time I encountered steep, icy turns. Skinning was way harder than I’d anticipated, and I ...

This week, for the first time at the Olympics, skiers will scamper uphill wearing carpet-like skins on their skis or just their stiff boots, then barrel back down an ungroomed course. This is ski ...

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 ...

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