Member Matt a.d.

Ok so, I’ll add my two-cents.

Bought these sort of on a whim. Had recently had a harrowing experience kicking steps into horrible wind-slab above a bunch of rocks and was really frustrated how easy it was for my skier. So I went into MEC and was walking around in these and the TLT6’s, and these were the last pair in my size and they felt really…[Read more]

How the hell do you adjust the forward lean? I’ve spend hours staring at the boots trying to figure it out. 🙁

I had a Storm and then a Zephyr and both were amazing boards. Then I went to a Lib Tech and hated it, so I sold it and went to a Solution. The Solution is decent, but a not built to last, and is a little too stiff and light for my liking.

If you want a board that you can feel every little bump on, get the Solution, if you want a board that is…[Read more]

@russman wrote:

I remember talking with him about his mission to do fifty 5,000 foot days in a season, and that he was closing in and only a few days away from the goal. He had an amazingly warm, and soft spirit.

Oh man, I remember when he was doing that. We would get back from some tour and he’d be 150 ft. short of his daily “quota” and so be…[Read more]

There’s a zone around my home turf that is accessed by about 2 km of biathlon track so I actually skate the split fairly regularly. It’s not pretty, but once you get the hang of it, you can get a pretty decent clip going. My advice would be to do up your boots, max out the length of your poles and get low. Instead of trying to make long strides by…[Read more]

Major snowfall as we speak. Road’s closed west of Revy last I heard and the conditions have gone into the red. It’s been a really sketchy start to the season up here and we’ve had lots of incidents and a death already. Be careful out there folks.

Just learn to skate the split. It’s really not that hard if you do your boots up tight. You will definitely bail hilariously in front of your friends the first… 20 or 30 times you try it, but it will at least lighten the mood of those long slogs back to the truck.

Black Prince is closed because a bear is sleeping on the skin track. Tryst lake is decent until about 10 o’ clock on a powder day when the Black Prince crowd shows up. If you really like cross-country splitboarding you could go to Burstall pass. Chester lake has a big long flat snowshoe trail that leads up to a lake where you can either ride flat…[Read more]

@Zude wrote:

pooping is critical

Easily the most important recommendation in this entire thread.

Honestly, just get out more. You’ll get more efficient at everything and the extra two minutes it might take to transition won’t even matter. It also helps if you’re willing to “out-gnarly” all your skier “friends” on the down.

The only advantage…[Read more]

Depends on the time of year. Pow when it’s deep and gnar when it’s stable. The rest of the time I just f*ck around and hit mini-golf lines with fun little features.

It sounds like it might be a decent board for couloirs or buttering around in flat gay pow, but there’s no way I’d make it my main board.

These worked pretty good for about 4000 vertical feet the other day. Much better than the OG Voile single-wire risers I started the day with.

Future iterations will likely need to add a notch in the piece of stick so the strap doesn’t slide off the sides. Some ideas were also tossed around about trying to find an oblong-shaped branch that could…[Read more]

I just went through this same scenario and ended up getting the Malamutes.

F-series shave length by making the liner non-removable. So, if your doing multi-day stuff, drying could be an issue.

Something to be wary of with Solomon is that their sizing is euro so buying boots without trying them on is a bad idea. I wear a size 11.5 Burton boot and…[Read more]

These are not the droids you are looking for…

I think it depends on what country your in as well. I’m in Canada and placed my Jones order in August and still no board. I can’t even get them to reply to my emails (hence the rant).

Fine. But, my point was that for riders like me, whom I would argue are the majority (in comparison to those riding hardboots), nobody is “[limiting] equipment progress for our sport.” In fact, quite the opposite (see split-specific binding companies X and Y). The sport is just moving in a direction that you don’t like, but I do.

p.s. Skiing is still teh ghey!

Right. I’m ignorant cause I don’t like riding hardboots…

Ride hardboots, or don’t. It’s a free world, do whatever you want. But not everyone splitboards so they can bag peaks. Lots of us do it because we wanna ride powder and hit big natural features.

It’s the same reason more and more splitboard companies are trending towards rockered…[Read more]

I don’t know what the fuss over stiffer and stiffer boots is. I don’t think I’ve even done my boots up for the better part of the last ten years. Stiff boots and bindings are shitty ski technology influence. Maybe they’re good for kicking steps in ice but the last time I checked I fucking hated riding ice…

Ranquet doesn’t even ride with…[Read more]

Revy, Golden, Nelson, Fernie, Terrace, etc…