The 7th annual Canuck Splitfest will be held January 13th-15th in Revelstoke British Columbia. Trapper Snowboards will be the Title Sponsor for this seasons event and will assist with some of the...

The North Face and Sherpa Cinema present Tsirku. Ralph Backstrom and crew venture out onto the Tsirku Galcier with the hopes of riding Corrugated. Faced with a sixty-kilometer snowmobile route across a...

Who builds your snowboard? With Venture Snowboards back in the game, we are glad we have more boards being built by snowboarders. After seeing the quality of a finished Venture board and hearing that they...

On October 7th, Spark R&D celebrated Manufacturing Day. A day where businesses which manufacture everything from beer to splitboard bindings can showcase the manufacturing process. Part of the goal of...

The North Face and Sherpa Cinema present Tsirku. Ralph Backstrom and crew venture out onto the Tsirku Galcier with the hopes of riding Corrugated. In late March of 2016, the team arrived at a base camp in...

Pro Snowboarder Josh Dirksen took the road less traveled and stayed home in Oregon to film his video part for Insight. Josh talks about how home shaped his riding style and how the Oregon backcountry has some...

If you've already upgraded to the Spark T1 bindings you may have had some troubles deploying your climbing wires with ease. If you're not interested in working on your flexibility or doing additional lunges,...

Check out the trailer for the upcoming FREE film featuring Nick Russel, Wyatt and Cory Stasinos, Jeremy Jones, Forrest Shearer and others. FREE premieres, October 27th in Tahoe City, California or online at...

The people of Petran, Turkey, have been snowboarding for roughly 300 years. It’s not snowboarding as we know it, but you’ll recognize it. In this film by WRKSHRT, we follow Alex Yoder and Nick Russell into...

Without a doubt splitboarding has evolved in leaps and bounds from the DIY builds, Burton’s splitboard interface, Voile’s plate kit, and Spark R&D’s Ignition binding. Even with all of the advances in...

Grassroots Powdersurfing - A chronological journey taking us 8 years into the past starting with the development of the first ever split-powsurfer prototypes on earth and moving forward through years of...

Colorado based OZ Snowboards is known for creating high quality handcrafted splitboards. Adam walks us through their 5 part video series which details the construction on their carbon fiber...

Grassroots Powdersurfing introduces their 2016-17 "Classic" and "Transformer" Split-surfer models. The "Classic" allows for several binding options during the skin up and binding free riding during the...

While some of us in the Northern Hemisphere are chasing glaciers and left over patches, Venture Snowboards Ambassador Mike Wigley, scored some September Pow in the Purcell Mountains. I think it's safe to say...

SPARK R&D looks back on the last 10 years of products and innovations. When an idea hits – there is a spark – energy is released and the gears start turning. For us, that spark happened as Will...

With Venture Snowboards welcomed return this year, we are excited to see they have launched their website for the 16/17 season. As Venture had teased during the trade show, this years line up will feature some...

Furberg Snowboard's Team Rider, Davide Capozzi's talks about his recent first snowboard descent of Aiguille Verte "Les Z," on Mont Blanc in the French Alps.   In spring 2013 Julien “Pica” Herry spotted...