Skin wax - drop some wisdom on me! please :)

Anyone have any tips, products, recommendations to keep in your pack. Borrowed some once from someone on the trail, think it was glob stopper, all it stopped was the clock. Trail application was a joke. Obviously a good waxing in the garage is best but even new skins have left me with 50lbs feet. Here is a great shop waxing vid. .

One tip I'll share is this: When my skins are icing up and collecting snow. I'll strip the skin off, grab the ends, loop it under my ski so the pelt is against the edges and saw back and forth. This scrapes the ice out of the pelt. Once the ice is gone you can get a few hundred yards before it starts back. It will get you through a shaded section if your icing bad.

But there is snow that just sticks for no apparent reason and this is the mystery. Looks like we are in for a spot of spring conditions and any suggestions on products and techniques would be welcome.

Skin wax in the parking lot before the first leg of the trip (doesn't help mid-day buildup issues).

I've heard that sunscreen can work in a pinch. Maybe scrape skins over the ski then apply sunscreen?

Skinning through fresh light snow in the sun and then going into sub-freezing shade is usually a recipe for snow sticking to skis no matter how well you prepared beforehand, but I hot wax much like Mr. Romeo in the vid. I use the same wax I plan to ski on (he seems to be using Glopstopper in the video), rub it on both directions fairly heavily, iron in well, then brush tip-to-tail with a coarse nylon (not brass) brush. Seems to help prevent snow buildup and promote glide. I carry some Glopstopper in my pack, but nothing seems to work as well as the hot waxing.

I am in the hot wax camp, I will sometimes still get some icing but not very often. I have been tempted to use some of that wipe on glide compound sold for Nordic skiing, but have not tried it yet. Have not tried the brushing, but will next time I wax.

I use and like Nikwax Ski Skin Proof, a liquid wax.

I keep it simple -- periodic hot waxing -- I mount the skins on the skis, rub cheap universal glide wax on the skin along the grain and then pass my waxing iron along the grain using low heat.

in the field when a companion's skins start icing up, first I'll scrap all icy buildup from the skins using the edge of the other ski (or a scraper if one is availible) and then rubbing cheap universal glide wax both with and against the grain.

The other thing that helps is to slide the ski forward with each stride instead of lifting. It is also possible clear icing by setting one ski on edge and then scraping the skin/base against the topsheet edge of the on edge ski. Old skills from the days of kick waxing for climbing grip.