How is this for a tele setup? I've never seen any Pontoons on tele mountings. I'm mostly a resort skier but do some backcountry as well. Are there skins to fit this or should I stick to my HIppie Stinx?

K2 has precut skins for these skis. As you can see the rivets in the tip and tail are what you hook your skin up to. So there is no need to guess. As far as tele skiing on these. These things are massive. Which makes it a lot of ski to carry up the side of the mountain. What a lot of people dont understand is that tele skiing isn't always a powder day. So you need a ski that can ski it all and get you out of tight situations. I would look at K2's other skis such as the darkside, sidestash, or coomback. Those are good big mountain chargers, but are also geared to be good tele skis as well.

I've seen quite a few people on the tram with the older version of this ski and tele binders, mostly mounted with Hammerheads or G3 Targas. You're probably going to have to adjust your style of skiing as these skis have absolutely massively wide tips. I can't say for sure if you're going to have trouble as I've never seen you ski. Since the ski continuously tapers from tip to tail, you would be best off with a 130mm or 140mm skin. You would get full coverage underfoot and in the tail, and you would have some base exposed at the tip. But since there is so much rocker in the tip, that doesn't really matter as you will not be getting any traction from the tip while skinning anyway. K2 also makes a custom cut skin for this ski. This ski is designed as part of the K2 Backside series which means it's meant to be used in the backcountry on the way up and down as a tele and alpine touring ski, as well as with alpine binders. It has a tail notch for skin hooks, so that's a clear indication of it's purpose. I can't say for sure if you will like it, or how comfortable you will be with these skis mounted tele, but there are plenty of people that ski them with tele binders.

You would find these very cumbersome in a tele setup I have trouble keeping the tips out of each other even on my alpine setup You would need 160mm wide skin material (cant think of the brand that makes it off the top of my head) Bottom line Not a good choice if you want to tele