Maybe it was simply too steep to go straight? Above 28-30° one needs to go zig-zag with switchbacks.

my experience with the dual heel risers is that the high one is to high. If you need that heel riser the skin track is too steep to skin up and I slip backwards to frequently. I am not sure why skin tracks seem to get steeper every year but when they get to steep i set my own. I think it would probably be best if our heel risers matched the height of dynafit low high riser heights.

I’ve been using cramp on’s now everytime I get into the track and it’s amazing. The thinking is that I’m not getting any glide so I might as well get grip. It makes everything easier especially switchbacks. And when the track gets slippery from high traffic I still have bite. I can’t say enough about the Mr Chomps and how easy it is to install them and shred up hill.

@BobGnarly wrote:

Im just about ready throw the split and go back to snowshoes, at least I get where I need to on the shoes instead of doing the moon walk everywhere I go on the split lol.

F&#k me – Don’t go back to snow-shoes! That’s heresy!!! 😯 😥 😡 😳

When you say you were splitboarding at Asahidake, I’m assuming you were up in the alpine above the ropeway, in which case it’s hardly surprising you were slipping and sliding. The alpine is always super wind-blasted there as it’s so exposed. Particularly recently too, as a few weeks back it got blasted by a really nasty northerly that basically stripped the alpine back to rock.

See here in this photo, I was going to tour up the peak on this particular day (yes that’s a solid, my split was at the bottom of the ropeway in the car) but have a look below and you’ll see there was barely a ride-able line (that didn’t involve a likely core shot anyway) off the peak, so I stuck to the treeline.

Using your tallest climbing wire is not the answer. The terrain should dictate what climbing wire you use.

Cold comfort, but as everyone else said – Your Mr Chomps would’ve eaten this shit for breakfast.

In any case, if you find yourself slipping go for a lower skintrack angle with more switchbacks.

Another tip is to keep the skin as flat as possible to the surface. The more surface area of the skin you have in contact with the snow (or ice 😥 ), the more weight it will support without slipping. Edges are not your friend :thumbsdown: Your skins need to be touching ground not air.

You can do all this by rolling (or pointing) your knees and/or ankles downhill.

Also, slide your “ski”, don’t lift.

Stick with it!

My final tip is to head down the valley from Asahidake to a place called Furanodake where you will lap the “slow-shoers” in the testicle-deep top-to-bottom powder! :rock:

What skins are you using? Some grip better than others.