Touring with Armada Bubba/ARG?

Doubtless it's been done, but it won't be the lightest set up and the high tail won't make the most efficient for skinning. However for a slackcountry pow day touring ski, it'll work fine.
 
It will work but def a beafy setup. I would advise against the guardians and go with the Dukes. They guardians are just to heavy and you can skin with them at a 0 degree. So if your going to be doing a lot of slackcountry laps and not really up hill on these hogs then I would go with the duke or barons for a lil lighter. Used both bindings and marker has it designed better.
 
No one has bothered to mention that it is extremely possible that the ARG/Bubbas might be too fat to fit in every single skin track that has been blazed before you arrived. If you're planning on blazing your own skin track, then it won't matter. However, the ARG is a fully rockered ski, with 0° of camber underfoot, making the skinning footprint a lot smaller. This will mean that your skins will have less contact with the snow, equating to less uphill grip. People do it all the time with full blown pow skis, but more often than not, bc skiers are using skis that cater more to the uphill challenge as well. This is why you see smaller waisted skis that are also very lightweight. Hope this helps.
 
so i need to look for skins that will fir properly as well. duly noted. i was also recommended the barons, any experience with those? shop had last years for $200.
 
I assumed you were talking about the 16 DIN guardian in which case the Baron has a completely different DIN range to it (lower). However if you are talking about the Guardian 13, I would say Gaurdian 13 over the Baron. The Guardian 13s are quite a bit heavier than the Barons, however considering what you're skiing on, don't think weights a problem. Although I've never skied the Guardian 13, I would venture to say that it is more durable than the barons, - it took me ~25 days to break a pair of Barons.
 
If this response is directed towards my post, I'm not certain you fully understood what I meant by the skin track. Each pair of skins should be purchased and then trimmed to the exact shape/sidecut of your skis or they will be ruined shortly after using them the first time. The glue can sometimes be a bit of a hassle and if they aren't cut perfectly to the bottom of ski, the snow will wreck havoc on it's intended purpose. Now, in regards to what I called the skin track. This is almost like a grove found at trail heads of popularly toured backcountry spots. Here in the Wasatch, unless you're a member of the Dawn patrol, these skin tracks will most likely already be there by the time you are parked and ready to start touring. The problem with powder specific skis is that, in most cases, they are too wide for the groves (skin track) that has been blazed already. This means that you can one ski in the track, but one ski out. Blazing your own/new skin track requires a lot more energy.

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