Tuckerman Ravine - 03-10-05

[dmc]

Grabed the splitboards out of the car - Mine is a Burton my friends a custom Never Summer - and started skinning up the hiking trail around 9:30.
Bluebird day - temps in the mid-20's..

Took a slow pace - reached Hojos in about and hour and 15 minutes..




BS'd with caretakers for a while and ventured over to Hillmans Highway. Avalanche danger was bad so we decided to just test out my friends splitboard crampon setup on an icey Hillmans...

I decided to bootpack it over but the drifts were up to the waist - So I hung at the bottom while my buddy tested out the crampons..

After he scraped his way down - we headed over to the Sherburne trail.. It was really sweet...!! The wind had blown a ton of snow onto it and it all settled on the skiers left side - nice drifts!

Sherburne Trail

Sherburne Trail

Took about 20 minutes to get down...

A great day of skinning and riding!!!


My Burton Split...

[ozskier]

Thanks for the update. Hopefully I'll see you up there at some point this April!

[highpeaksdrifter]

Outstanding DMC

Nice picks, but how can you put climbing skins on a snowboard?

[dmc]

Originally Posted by skinut

Nice picks, but how can you put climbing skins on a snowboard?

Board splits down the middle.. Turns into ascent skis.. Bindings repostitioned... Slap the skins on...
http://snowboarding.about.com/od/bac...plit_works.htm

Made some awesome skin tracks around the Catskills last weekend.. Incredible snow condtions for riding which is all melting now...

[Greg]

Originally Posted by dmc

Board splits down the middle.. Turns into ascent skis.. Bindings repostitioned... Slap the skins on...

Hey, that's pretty wild! Could you use them as skis on the descent if you wanted to?

[dmc]

Originally Posted by Greg

Hey, that's pretty wild! Could you use them as skis on the descent if you wanted to?

That would be a big NO

The edges on one side of the board is straight the other shaped...
More info...
http://www.splitboard.com/split101/

That's interesting. It must be expensive equipment, though. In addition they are very short for skinning. I have found as a heavy weight a long ski has an advantage in climbing with skins.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by dmc

That would be a big NO

The edges on one side of the board is straight the other shaped...

Duh. That makes sense...

[dmc]

Originally Posted by skinut

That's interesting. It must be expensive equipment, though. In addition they are very short for skinning. I have found as a heavy weight a long ski has an advantage in climbing with skins.

My split climbing skins are more then twice as wide then my tele skis - my board is a 168... I find it WAY easier to climb using the wide split skins..

They are expensive to buy... But the interface is only $150 and you can install it on any board... You just dont get a factory edge in the straight side.
I got my Burton from demo stock for cheap...