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 ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. When I first started backcountry skiing, I remember how frequently I ...

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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 ...

Some uphillers like to joke that real skiers don’t use chairlifts. Longtime Aspenite Jim Ward might argue that real skiers don’t use climbing skins. Ward, 79, is a cross-country and ski touring ...

I'm a UK-based writer who covers outdoor gear and consumer tech. With eye-watering lift pass costs and endless queues at even the smallest resorts, it's easy to appreciate the allure of backcountry ...