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You want your skin to feel like a smooth, glidy part of your ski when you go up, and to feel feather-light in your pack on the way down. Welcome to the Alpinist Climbing Skin.
Low-profile tip connector uses pivoting hands to fit securely on your ski tip and eliminate the extra weight and floppiness of fold-over designs
Laminated tail uses G3 tail connection system for less drag
Advanced waterproofing treatment prevents clumping when you move through multiple climate zones
Temperature-tolerant adhesive won’t flake-out and loose stick when it gets cold
RipStrip makes it easy to pull off the ski and reduces skin-to-skin sticking
When sizing up a skin for a ski you want as much coverage as possible. With that being said, we're working in millimeters, a very small measurement, and most of the traction you get when skinning up comes from the last 3/4 of the ski. The tip really doesn't help generate any traction. A 115 skin will obviously get you great coverage underfoot, and in the tail, you'll have 2 mm on either side of the skin, which is basically the thickness of the edge, and material you would have trimmed away anyway if you were cutting the skin to size. And in the front, you will end up about 5 mm on either side, hardly a large amount.
It appears that by getting the 115, you end up with an almost perfectly fitted skin without having to do any trimming except in the middle part of the ski to fit the waist. If you went for the next size up, you would be spending more money and cutting away a lot of material. The 115 is the perfect size. Go for it.
Here is g3's guide for choosing a skin. You will see the 115 fits in perfectly for the size ski you will be using: http://www.genuineguidegear.com/service/g3-learning-centre/skins
Tricky the mediums range from 171-181 and the Large 180-190. I think you would be able to get away with the Medium you will have some tail showing on your larger skis but that should matter since they are twin tipped and the tail doesn't even hit the snow.
I am 5'6'' 140lbs and have 174cm K2 Coombas (135-102-121) and I am looking at these G3 skins. Is it worth getting 130ish skins and trim them to cover the base wall to wall or should I go with a skin around 100mm that covers the base under foot. I do not want a boat to drag up hill, but at the same time want enough coverage not to slide back. Any thoughts?
Get the skins that fit the widest part of your ski (except for some extreme fatties) and then trim down to the waist. You'll appreciate the extra coverage.
Dustin, these skins have a set length bracket since there's no folding through a tip loop to adjust for your skis; that's why they come in S, M, L etc.
Pick up the xShort length. Get a width that is close to the widest part of your ski, then open a beer. Trim the width with the included Skin Cutter. It's super easy.
you buy skins based on the width of your skis not really the length as the skins are cut to fit the length of the ski by you. You can either measure the tip of your ski and buy skins that wide or measure the middle of the ski and buy that width. If you buy skins based on the middle width you won't have full coverage and may slip in icy conditions. I always buy skins based on my tip width.