How To Use Climbing Skins When Ski Touring in the Backcountry

The best 5 tips on how to use climbing skins for ski touring in the backcountry. You'll learn how to manage your climbing skins so that they do not get contaminated with debris and they will almost always stick properly to your skis.

Managing your backcountry skiing skins is easy with this system. You can avoid the most common mistakes people make when handling their skins by following these steps. You will have a system to make your ski touring experience more enjoyable and less stressful.

If you are a beginner or an experienced ski tourer, you'll find 5 precious tips to make managing your skins super easy and efficient in this tutorial.

0:00 Intro
0:18 Ditch the skin savers and skin bag in your car.
0:28 Putting on the climbing skins
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3:48 Use your legs as levers to get sticky skins separated.
4:38 Getting ready to go down.
5:30 How to fold your skins.
6:29 Where to pack the skins for the descent.

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Top 5 Tips for managing your climbing skins:
1-Always put your skins onto a cold ski
2-Expose the ski edge when applying the skins
3-When you're at the top, remove one ski at a time, one skin at a time.
4-Fold the skins into two halves.
5-Put them in your jacket for the descent.

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