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Hiking with snowboard - gear (as seen in 'Deeper)
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Hi,

i just saw Deeper, the Jeremy Jones movie. In it, they use some kind oof cross country skies to do some of the flat hiking, but they seemed much shorter & wider then tradiotional cross country skis. Anybody knows this kind of material and has a product name or some links?

Tnx
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

He uses a split board in deeper not skis

Check out his website cos it's his company that makes his boards
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Yeah, all split-boards in Deeper.

There are various different brands making them (Jones of course, Burton, Never Summer, Prior, Voilé, Atomic and others). Apart from Atomic, they all now use the Voilé splitting system (Burton having discontinued their own system, apparently following Voilé claims of a patent infringement).

The Voilé system is pretty clunky, but it works very well and is near-indestructible. Your bindings mount onto aluminium plates. In ski mode, steel pins through the front of the plates allow your toes to pivot like ski-touring bindings. When re-assembled into a snowboard, the plates slide onto chunky rubber mountings which provide much of the strength and rigidity of the join. Apart from this, there are simple clips at the tip and tail and 2 sets of inter-locking metal plates just outside the bindings. You can now get bindings (at least, you can in Canada!) which integrate the mounting plate and therefore save you a lot of weight plus they also avoid your bindings being an extra inch or so off the board.

The Atomic Poacher splitboard uses a proprietary system which comes as a complete package (board, bindings, skins, crampons, etc.) As far as I know, it's had fairly mixed reviews.

You can find everything you could possibly want to know at www.splitboard.com .

I've had one for a few years now, but not had the chance to really use it anger a lot, it mostly gets used for pre/post season skinning-up in the resort for a bit of exercise and some early turns. I did use it the other day on a longer tour along with some skiers on touring gear and snowboarders on snowshoes. It was great, best tour I've done on it yet. The main issue I've found is that the snowboard boot/binding interface doesn't give you enough stiffness to use the ski edges properly when traversing on climbs. On my most recent tour, I fitted the ski-crampons right from the start and that really helped with this problem - I had no issues at all with slipping sideways and we were climbing on a south face which was fairly sun-baked and crusty.
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