Karhu Guide binding discussion

I did read acarey's waxing of the ski. Not sure about the hot wax tip and tails?
I thought that the ski base on the waxless is a harder plastic composition that would not absorb wax. I could be mistaken here? I can see putting something on them to kind of polishing them, but hot wax may ruin the plastic.  Not sure???
Can you elaborate on the reason skin suck in spring?
I know that my skins on all the other stuff I own just get soaked and the adhesive quality is slightly reduced. But what about them with the Guides suck? I would think that it would make them easier to climb the steeper pitches or harder snow conditions in the mornings. But it would suck to have to change them out all the time if you had rolling terrain and steeper pitches interspersed between destinations.
Heck sometimes in the spring the snow gets sticky enough that you don't even need skins.

Some of my waxless skis have ptex? (nonplastic bases) and these can be hot waxed for improved downhill performance but that also reduces climbing ability even if you don't wax the patterns.

I never hotwaxed my plastic-base skis, just Zardoz or maxiglide.

You can hotwax noncambered non-patterned skis and even include a little grip wax (and apply more to suit the conditions) in drier snow areas.

I always carry skins and skin wax to keep sintering snow from sticking.

Some of my waxless skis have ptex? (nonplastic bases) and these can be hot waxed for improved downhill performance but that also reduces climbing ability even if you don't wax the patterns.

I never hotwaxed my plastic-base skis, just Zardoz or maxiglide.

You can hotwax noncambered non-patterned skis and even include a little grip wax (and apply more to suit the conditions) in drier snow areas.

I always carry skins and skin wax to keep sintering snow from sticking.

Although I have not hot waxed our Guides, I have had to, on a couple of occasions, hot scraped them due to a vicious attack of the dreaded spring pollen epidemic  >. I have not seen any detrimental affects from doing this. We do carry and use skins on these skis, mostly in the spring. On several trips the morning will start out with very firm (think frozen solid  ) conditions. The waxless base does not do well, so out come the skins. As the day progresses, the temps increase and the snow softens, the skins go back in the pack and the waxless bases provide the most efficient traveling. If we need to climb some steeper terrain, we may pull the skins back out. Definitely carry skin wax. I would like to have kicker skins for these skis, but have not got around to getting these yet.

Gary