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    Climbing skins are strips that attach to the bottom of Nordic, alpine touring or randonnée skis to help while ascending backcountry slopes. They are designed...
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    downhill. Synthetic skins typically grip better while mohair skins made from Angora Goat hair slide better. Commonly, skins are attached to skis or a splitboard...
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  • pairs, skis are attached to ski boots with ski bindings, with either a free, lockable, or partially secured heel. For climbing slopes, ski skins (originally...
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  • the mesh Uphill skiing using ski skins Skin (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Skinning. If an internal...
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    alpine skis. For downhill travel, the heels are locked and the skins are removed. The Nordic disciplines include cross-country skiing and ski jumping...
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    including 'sticky' skins on the bottoms of the skis to stop them sliding backwards during an ascent, then locking the heel and removing the skins for their descent...
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    steep terrain. Ski skins: Attached to bottoms of skis, used for walking up slopes.[citation needed] Rope: Are not always used in ski mountaineering,...
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    Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing whereby skiers traverse snow-covered terrain without use of ski lifts or other assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely...
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  • somewhat from year to year. ski skins Removable strips of fabric that attach to the underside of skis, designed to allow the skis to slide forward on snow...
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    turn (skiing) Jump turn Skis Ski bindings Ski boots Ski poles with pole guards if a racer Ski wax depending on the condition and temperature Ski skins if...
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    of the skis or sticky ski wax in the center pocket are used in lower-angle or rolling terrain. Climbing skins are used when fish scales or ski wax fail...
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    access: long pieces of synthetic fabric, known as skins, can be attached to the bottom of the skis to allow travel uphill in the backcountry. With the...
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    "ski-snowshoes", essentially short, wide versions of traditional skis, were used in Eurasia. They were made of light woods such as pine. Slender skis seem...
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    (UK-APC) in 1959 for Victor Sohm, Austrian skiing exponent who invented a special type of ski skins and ski wax. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica...
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  • by SkiFree. A winter skin where the player skis instead of surfs and must run from the SkiFree Abominable Snowman was added to the game in 2021. SkiFree...
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  • IV, Nidecker won a gold medal at the 6th International Ski Show in Geneva for their new ski skin system called the Varai-Clix. In 1984, Nidecker joined...
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    (September 1988). "Your True Colors". Ski. 53 (1): 266. Retrieved 28 October 2015. Johnson Gross, Kim (1997). Woman's Face: Skin Care and Makeup. Knopf. ISBN 9780679445784...
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    A ski suit is a suit made to be worn over the rest of the clothes when skiing or snowboarding. A ski suit made for more casual winter wear outdoors may...
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  • Skins, stylized SKINS, is an Australian manufacturing company founded in 1996 that designs and produces compression garment for athletes and sports enthusiasts...
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    journalist, they climbed to the summit of Mont Tremblant with skis wrapped in seal skins for traction. After an exhausting trek to the summit, it is said...
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    Emelie Forsberg (category Swedish female ski mountaineers)
    December she placed second in a Swedish race in Åre after losing her ski skins and running one out of eight laps on foot. Shortly after, in January 2013...
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    Salomon Group (redirect from Salomon Skis)
    (December 2010). "Georges Salomon". Skiing Heritage: 44. Sirak, Ron (September 17, 1997). "Organizers announce field for Skins Game". Ocala Star-Banner. Florida...
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  • Skin Graft Records (officially capitalized SKiN GRAFT Records) is an independent record label specializing in no wave and noise rock, originally based...
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    company, more specifically Nordic skiing, Alpine skiing and ice hockey equipment. Winter sports equipment include skis, boots, bindings, and accessories...
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  • Skiing, or traveling over snow on skis, has a history of at least eight millennia. The earliest archaeological examples of skis were found in Karelia...
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  • long ascent. It usually takes place on flat snow and entirely with skins under skis. It has not to exceed an altitude difference of 700m. Relay race: This...
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  • it very popular among hobbyists and some traction enthusiasts, especially ski- and sledge-borne expeditions across both Arctic and Antarctic lands, but...
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    Skis Rossignol S.A., or simply Rossignol, is a French manufacturer of alpine, snowboard, and Nordic equipment, as well as related outerwear and accessories...
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    used mainly for pushing off and was covered with skins. The locomotion, in which a shearing of the skis was advantageous, bears a marked resemblance to...
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  • fennel, coriander, lime, and vodka or aquavit)" klister, "a soft wax used on skis" krill, "planktonic crustaceans and their larvae (order or suborder Euphausiacea...
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