Climbing Skins???
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Climbing Skins???
Has anyone out there made skins? There has to be a way to do it cheaper than $180.00. I think the BD skins are some kind of "Mohair??" just thought i would throw that out into the ski building world, any ideas? Thanks....
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My girlfriend's latest cross country skis have a part "fishscale" base. This works the same as a skin, stops the ski sliding backwards. Anyone know whether this idea is crossing over into touring ski design? Would be great not to need skins! Probably would slow the ski on downhill runs? But by how much, and if not a lot, what a time saver it could be...
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Just...
..home from Haute Route.....I hate skins, crampons or whatever needed to climb uphill...for now..
I will do the trip next year aswell, but with the right equipment. Eg. lightweight.
Anyone, any ideas for randoneé skis? Lightweigth material and dimensions.
I will do the trip next year aswell, but with the right equipment. Eg. lightweight.
Anyone, any ideas for randoneé skis? Lightweigth material and dimensions.
Im pretty sure that would work to well on anything very steep.lancelot wrote:My girlfriend's latest cross country skis have a part "fishscale" base. This works the same as a skin, stops the ski sliding backwards. Anyone know whether this idea is crossing over into touring ski design? Would be great not to need skins! Probably would slow the ski on downhill runs? But by how much, and if not a lot, what a time saver it could be...
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big fishscales
could you just layer your base material so there was overlap, kind of like shingles or whatever so that there was a lip on the tail side of the piece of base material? do you get what i mean?