As good as any, and maybe better.

By phatline Ranked #359 - Climbing Skins April 29, 2010

My other two skins are the BCA Low Fat (on some skinny Karhu XCD) and Climbing Skins Direct simples (on K2 Shuksan). I've always had trouble skinning up very steep degrees with those skins, and these seem to be a bit better (however, they're also considerably wider). Regarding the features, I am quite happy with the low bulk/weight design. The tip clips are effortless and make it easy to center the skin on the ski and the tail clip stays put and comes off on demand. I've had significantly less icing-up problems with these as compared to the CSD skins--due, I'm sure, to the factory waterproofing treatment. I have not experienced the "floppy" effect others here have complained about, but that could be because I bought the 115mm size and use them, uncut, on my 116mm waist skis.

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