Nearly perfect

By Dominick Layfield Ranked #301 - Climbing Skins February 20, 2009

Love the tips on these. I much prefer them to the traditional bar used in BD skins. The G3 clips are quicker to put on, lighter, fit more ski shapes, and center the skin better. The skin itself is a little lighter and more flexible than BD skins. Grip seems similar so far, although it's hard to say for sure without going up the exact same track with different skins. Oh, and the new G3 trimming tool is brilliant: no need to mess around moving the skin back and forth on the ski.

I would change two things: firstly, add a removable strip down the middle of the skin to make them easier to separate (just like the BD skins); secondly, the G3 tail clip just doesn't work at all on twin-tips: this needs to be fixed.

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