Skins Madness

personally i would stay away from them for touring, the width is going to make it really akward traversing across a steep slope and the rocker means you'r not going to have that much skin incontact with the snow meaning u wont have as much traction, but the roocker shouldnt make too much differnce to the way u attach them, my skins just have a wire loop that goes round the nose so width shudnt be a problem and the clip on the tail should be fine, but depending on how the skis are mesured u might have to buy a longer skin than u think

We know someone touring on hellbents and while he has less contact area length wise the width underfoot balances it out. That said its not the ideal touring rig. If you are looking for skins for twins check out www.climbingskinsdirect.com these have twin tip skin hooks which is basically loops for both ends, instead of a clip on the tail which doesn't stay put on a rounded twin tail. I use them on my gladiators and a buddy has them for his supercharger blowers and neither of us have had problems with slippage.

Marker's got some new skins, might even be out this spring.

Theyre basically a two-fingered claw that reaches way around your tip/tail and you can bend to match their curvature.

You can cut skins to fit any ski, it's just a matter of whether or not you want to tour on them.  Personally, I would never use a ski like that for AT, but I guess if you're only going out when there's some powder you will be fine.  Just keep in mind it's not weird at all to go from ice to powder to slush to windbuff all in the same run in the backcountry.

i think someone should write a skinning guide.
like what it is, how you do it etc..