Skins stick to scales just fine. been doing that for years. This is very helpful. Assuming your skis are comparable in width under foot to the Discovery 102, your example suggests scales alone have the potential to climb around 12% grade (in certain snow conditions) which is awesome. Also stoked to...

This is excellent feedback thank you! The straight skin option sounds ideal (if I can find...). I suppose my biggest question was really "is it normal/common to put skins on a waxless base which already has a tread pattern intended for climbing? Will the skin hold to that base pattern?". How well ca...

Hey, super new here and hoping to find a set up that will climb really well. Would it be possible to put skins on the Alpina Discovery 102? I'm considering this with the contour hybrid 115 skins for when things get a bit steeper than the scales can manage. Is this unnecessary?