Really efficient skin removal

Interested in speeding up your transitions from skinning to skiing mode? Check out this video from Andrew McLean of last weekend's Powder Keg World Cup Rando Race . . .<br><br> www.telemarktalk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6360

Those people are obviously members of an entirely different subspecies from mine. They're cramming a very reasonable full-day tour (5000+ vertical) into about an hour and a half!

Nothing in the past few months has made me want to ski more then watching that video.

Very nice and quite impressive!! <br><br>What glue do they use on their skins to make sure they will stick again? <br>I heard that some people are actually using 2 pairs of skins...

Just looked at the results of the "Pierra Menta" which is one of the major backcountry races in Europe. Check this out: this years edition was a "short" version since they had a big party for their 20th anniversary, so they "only" had 27000 feet elevation gain over 4 days. The first team completed that in 9 hours and 15 min!<br><br>Crazy.<br><br> www.pierramenta.com/index.htm

In case you can't view the video, AT Apostle has put together a page containing sequences of stills showing skin removal:<br> www.pawprince.com/skin_strip/skin_strip.html

TTips thread here:
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