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Last season I used my coronavirus stimulus check to buy a Weston 164cm Japow swallowtail, but it didn’t come with skins. I demoed the 159cm in March and used spark skins with the tail hooks swapped to grab onto the swallowtail but it didn’t work too great. Does anyone have any advice for what skins to buy for a swallowtail split?

I purchased one of those yellowish rossis on sale last year and noticed it has the notches in the tail for a quick tension tail clip. Can I use the Jones nomad quick tension tail clip skins with this split? I read that the Jones come preshaped. Is that really true? I have a 167 Magtek. Which jones size would work for me? Is there a better skin…[Read more]

Hi. I will be going to Whitefish MT with a couple of friends next month (late February). We will be there for just 3 days. We all want to bring our splitboards to do some touring on the middle day. I know the uphill policy on Big Mountain is very friendly, but since we plan to ride lifts for 2 days and tour for 1 day, I’d rather tour outside…[Read more]

When I first started splitboarding I used the voile slider plates, and while I hated them, I loved the compatible voile crampons because they could work in two positions. One setting is where it is fixed to the bottom of the binding and another where it is unfixed and mainly travels in the same plane as the boards. But after 5 years of suffering…[Read more]

Hi. There are three models of Spark XV, there is the TF (thermo flex), PF (performance flex) and the TPF (thermo premium flex). It is obvious the TPF is the best liner, but what about the TF and PF? Which one of these is better? I assumed the PF was better, but I am seeing that the TF is priced higher than PF on a lot of sites.

Hi, I’m planning a haute route trip and while reviewing gear with my buddies, the question of rocker came up. Obviously this will be great in powder, but what about in crud and icy condition. Or more importantly, how does full rocker affect skinning? Doesn’t it make it more difficult, than traditional camber?

Does anyone know if split packages can be rented in the areas around Mt Washington? I am bringing some bootpacker friends to TUX for the weekend, and I want to expose them to splitting on our off day, on Doublehead in the Jackson XC center. I read that bootpacking and snowshoeing is frowned upon. It would be cool to get everyone skinning.

Today I bent one of the baseplates climbing Teardrop at Stowe. It bent at the hinge of the climbing bar. I didn’t realize I had this problem till I tried to convert to snowboard mode and couldn’t get the binding all the way across the pucks. Suffice to say, it was a super shifty ride down. But, has this ever happened to anyone else?

I learned…[Read more]

Today I bent one of the baseplates climbing Teardrop at Stowe. It bent at the hinge of the climbing bar. I didn’t realize I had this problem till I tried to convert to snowboard mode and couldn’t get the binding all the way across the pucks. Suffice to say, it was a super shifty ride down. But, has this ever happened to anyone else?

I learned…[Read more]

I’m in the market for a new split. I have had a prior Kyber 170 and don’t really like it. I noticed the Voile BC has fish scales underneath. I ride in the east and sometimes we have some slow rollers to climb over. Besides the fishy feature, does anyone have any other experience with this board? Does it ride just like the standard revelator?…[Read more]