Question: Tips/Tricks/"Things I've Learned The Hard Way" for AT Skiing?

[snow addict]

This past weekend I went out for a shortish skin, about 1 mile in very mellow terrain (more for the exercise than anything). Temperature was above freezing and when I took of the skins they're soaking wet. Not an issue in itself, but it turned out the extra weight the water added made my legs pretty much useless the day after... Would the glide wax help against this or is there anything else than can be done to prevent the skins from getting soaked?

You can try to spray them with Nikwax Ski Skin Proof. I understand that skin wax is mainly used to prevent wet snow from sticking to the skins and freezing into a layer of ice, but with temperature above freezing I am not sure how it works . In my limited experience it's normal to end up with wet skins in spring. It does add a bit of weight but if you are not lifting skis it should be still OK.