E-Skimo - Stoke your outrage, Prepare your gatekeeping.

[nickwm21]

We’ve seen the modular rope tow products, moon bikes, drone tows, etc - but this is first electric assist product I’ve seen that could be valuable on the skin track…

https://e-skimo.swiss/

Like it or not, something like this will likely penetrate the sport within the next decade….


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[climberevan]

Wow, that's dumb. But maybe some lazy fucks will buy one? It looks like it might work on a straight, grippy skintrack/groomer. No risk of those things taking over real BC skiing in the near future. 700m/hr of elevation gain is a pretty slow uphill pace, so they would really only help the terminally out of shape move a bit faster.

Should the stickers say "E-skins are snowmobiles", or something else?

[toast2266]

It seems like they'd really only work on groomed surfaces. So if they only work inbounds, and the point is to make going uphill easier, why wouldn't you just take the chairlift?

Even if they did work for "real" touring, who wants to ski down on janky approach skis that have weird holes in them where the track goes?

[XXX-er]

an engineering exercise I can't see it ever being popular enough to make any money from

[stealurface831]

pathetic.

[shank]

Setting aside the issues of “is it dumb as fuck” (yes) “will it catch on” (no) and “was capitalism a mistake” (jury out but evidence mounting), I don’t see how they can claim no compromise on the downhill when the design of the device they’re marketing will strip the wax off your bases on your first lap. Maybe you have to pair them with the teflon-coated aluminum skis from the Peak thread?

[Jason4]

I think they’ve taken the “ski” out of it, it should just be called “E-mo” at this point. I won’t say never because I see what’s happened with mountain biking and e-bikes but it looks like it has a long ways to go.

[Skip Dooley]

If only there was a chair one could sit their (lazy) ass upon, and be escorted, god-like, to the top of the mountain..


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[swissiphic]

I hit 49 and retired from ski touring. No vert, no hurt. This might be the ticket to unretirement. Won't be an early adopter but once it's refined, dialed, put on real skis and knocked off by cheaper than Swiss copycats, take my money. Edit: combined with the e powered exoskeleton = winning.

[Skip Dooley]

As long as you stay out of the wilderness…


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[chicken feathers]

Holding out for the full suspension model

[grinch]

Dji new skis will be 200% faster and 800w battery and 8lbs a pair i heard

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[frorider]

I imagine this would be a more elegant AT solution for the lazy dad bods out there: https://gearjunkie.com/outdoor/hikin...keleton-review

[kw_cap]

i'm really thinking the weight from the batteries will help me keep my tips up on deep days

[XXX-er]

I hit 49 and retired from ski touring. No vert, no hurt. This might be the ticket to unretirement. Won't be an early adopter but once it's refined, dialed, put on real skis and knocked off by cheaper than Swiss copycats, take my money. Edit: combined with the e powered exoskeleton = winning.

you just need a really big drone

[schindlerpiste]

Who is the realistic target audience, poser boomers?

[Huskier]

you just need a really big drone

This is what I'm going with. Solid state batteries are going to unlock some crazy shit. Is it still a drone if you're in control while hanging from it via a tether? Light sport aircraft, I say.

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[jackstraw]

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[Conundrum]

Taken from the about us section

Nicola is an accomplished entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience, having generated over 500 million in shareholder value through his various ventures.

With that kind of shareholder value created, they've caught my attention.

[shank]

I’ll buy one if swissiphic engineers it entirely out of high density plastic cutting boards

[MottN]

I don't even see how its supposed to help...?
From the video, its only assisting when you slide your unweighted ski forwards...which I feel is a small part of the overall energy expenditure skinning up hill.

So you add a bunch of weight on each ski then enough assist to cancel out the weight you added?

[coldfeet]

On their site, I just saw a video clip with a cut every second, so you can't tell whether it's working, but as a bonus you get a seizure.

Why don't any of these geniuses invent something useful, like electro-chemically altered kick wax with an app to control the electric potential, so if the temp changes I would just have to click something on my iphone to get proper kick and glide on rolling or low-angle terrain.

[Cocximus]

So what will be the skintrack etiquette?

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[grinch]

Flings dog turds right off the skintrack! Added another back up to my cart!

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