In addition to directing Outside Magazine's snowboard and splitboard gear tests--a role he's handled since 2016--he directs Backcountry Magazine's splitboard test, waxes on the Natural Selection and ...
You hike up the mountain on skis; you ride back down on a snowboard. It’s a splitboard—and its popularity is exploding. And it’s easy to see why: A splitboard finally opens up the backcountry to ...
The splitboarding revolution began back in the 1990s, when Utah-based firm Voile released its DIY Split Kit, which allowed snowboarders to convert their boards – by sawing them in half. Since then, ...
Minturn — Minturn-based Weston Backcountry has taken home another slew of awards heading into the new season. The local High Country Colorado manufacturer of snowboards and splitboards has earned the ...
Every snowboarder knows that first tracks at the resort don’t last long. Luckily for the antisocial powderhound, ditching migraine-inducing liftlines for backcountry bliss has never been easier, ...
It’s finally March, and that means the meat of backcountry touring season is nearly here. To get prepared, local AT skiers and splitboarders are taking over the Summit Daily sports section in print ...
It is fairly terrifying to trust a strip of fuzzy fabric to keep you from careening backwards down a steep, snowy ski hill while trying to climb up it. That fuzz’s friction is all I could think about ...
As I hit the exposed summit ridge of Mount Fox, an 11,240-foot peak in Montana’s Beartooth range, there was simply no escaping the arctic wind. But the final 10-minute push to the top was the price I ...
Splitboarding has been around since the mid-’90s as a way to make backcountry snowboarding available to the 99 percent of us who can’t afford helicopters. It’s essentially a snowboard that splits down ...