Member trondh

@b_ret wrote:

….. Trondh you visiting the pass this year?

Depends on the sickness of the pics you guys will be posting I guess. But I wasn’t planning on it 🙂

You’ll probably meet tons of people on the parking lot at Rogers Pass – lots of seasoners heading up there for touring. Just head up there in the morning and hang out by the entrance of the visitors center with your board and you’ll have a crew in about 3 minutes. Maybe 4.

I post the odd splitboarding pic a @trondhindenes

Nice, thanks for the tips!

I’m 90% percent sure I’ve been drunk in that appartment. Funny 🙂

Hard to say. It feels about as roomy as an Osprey 38, but I haven’t measured it. I usually dont fill it up all that much, and the helmet goes inside the backpack instead of on the lid if I have room for it. But I don’t feels it’s any smaller than other 40l packs I’ve tried or owned.

My black diamond guide gloves is the only pair I’ve ever had to last me more than a season. They’ve seen upwards of 250 riding days now, and still going strong.

That’s really interesting. I don’t know if they are using different materials on the 40L and 25L, I kind of doubt it. I’ll just have to see how it holds up with use.

THe 40Ls google pocket is in the lid, where it kind of rests “inside” the helmet so no worries there.

+1 for the trailtech. When riding in trees you need more light than you think, so those small “tent lights” won’t do it (imho)

This is from last week, btw:

@Scooby2 wrote:

But how fun could this be on those nights when the storms clear out at sunset, just turn on for descent? the Trail tech motorcycle light, probably lights up the whole bowl…

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I’m experiencing snow between the skin and my board both front and back with the geckos. Not that it’s a big problem, but they seem to stick a bit less than my old BD/Voile skins, never had that problem with them. Apart from that, I’m super-happy with my Geckos. Glide/Friction seems to be somewhere between the G3 and Voile ones.

@Powder_Rider wrote:

Does anyone have any experiences they would like to share/ when coaching or receiving coaching. when trying to work through a fearful situation?

I was with a guide once and when we were about to top out we had to cross this ridge with what was probably a 1000ft vertical fall on one side. I told him that I tended to get dizzy…[Read more]

IMHO you just need to try a range of lengths and board types to find what suits you. And not as in try a 172 for one in-bounds run, a board takes at least a few days of getting used to. Buy something used, try it, and sell it if you don’t like it.

I used to ride a 156 fish and a 156 skate banana, now I just ordered my second 172 split. When…[Read more]

I have been struggling with a fear of heights as long as I can remember, but it didn’t really “surface” until I started splitboarding 4 years ago.

For me, what triggers it is the feeling of being “unsafe”. Icy traverses and a lack of splitboarding teqnique at the time, for instance, would freeze me right up. I also noticed that the fear of…[Read more]

Nice pic from Ulriken! I lived in Bergen for several years, snowboarding Ulriken in still on my list 🙂

Bret, you coming to the splitboard festival in Norway right? Still loads of fun to be had during April and May, I’m always looking for splitboarding partners!

haha thanks. At least that makes it worth being on the lookout for them!

Cool guys, we are trying to make this an annual event. For 2013 we will probably make it sometime in march.

Lots of good kitesurf close to Stavanger. Snowkiting is also quite popular in Norway. from Bergen you will find splitboard-able mountains within 30-45 mins of driving from town, the Voss area is the closest are with “real” mountains (as in, “snowboard-movie-worthy” mountains 🙂 ).

Keep me posted, I’m in Bergen/Voss from time to time.

From Bergen you can get to the Voss area (W/NW from Bergen) in about 1,5 hrs. Awesome mountains there. Bergen-Sogndal is about 3,5 hrs (Sogndal has some of the best “fun-terrain” in the country in my opinion)

Stavanger: roughly 3 hrs to Røldal/Haukeli which has an amazing snowfall but too much “weather” and not enough treeruns for grey days.…[Read more]

I did 2 days of testing on the Split30 for the distributor here in Norway, and the forward lean is pretty much the only gripe I have with this binding. The SL version goes way back, but the “regular” Split30 all the way back is about at the same angle as a Spark Burner set to 2,5 on the hiback adjuster. The Karakoram gave me blisters on long…[Read more]