Skin Basics Skins are a layer of fabric applied to a ski base that allows for uphill travel on snow-covered slopes. A thin adhesive (skin glue) is used on one side of the skin, while the other is a plush fabric with millions of fine fibers. We’ll call this the plush. The plush’s fibers are…
The Basics: Choosing Skins
The skin selection du jour: mohair, mix, or nylon.
Responses
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What are your thoughts on trimming? My thought has always been there is essentially no grip coming from the rockered parts of a ski (at least one with rocker-camber, rocker), so I have trimmed skins with a long tip taper, so they get out to full width at the end of the tip rocker.
Does anyone have different experience? Is wide under the tip useful? If so, what conditions?
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I’m with you on this, Slim – I generally am rocking straight skins on my skinniest skis (sub 90mm), then a nice long taper on the fat skis. Not a lot of grip coming from the tip area, same goes for the tail. I often dream of a 4frnt 4-lock style mod on all of my skis.
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Mark Smiley went ahead and routered a hole in his skis with long tail rocker, so he could run a ski strap sewn to the tail of the skin through there. I don’t know if you need to return the demo ski’s you get? They might object to having a hole cut in them, 😉
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