So ive never done any back country riding before, its something I would love to experience given that I have just moved out to NM from MI. I plan on taking all the necessary avalanche courses and going out with a guide my first few times.
That being said, while I understand that Split boards give you a major advantage in terms of getting up the mountain faster, they are crazy expensive from what I can see, would it not be far more cost effective to just get a nice pair of snowshoes that can easily strap to my backpack instead? Im under the impression that a splitters main purpose is to keep you on top of the pow and moving quickly? Do people snow shoe instead?
Surprising, I have an SL-R 158 that I can float in pow pretty easily, I do have to put more weight on the back leg, I think that's going to be the case with any twinnish board. That's why I went with the Summit over the heritage. I don't ride switch or try many spins or tricks when I'm wearing a pack. Plus, pintails are a ton of fun in the trees (I rode a regular cambered mullet for a while on cat trips)
I guess this is probably a stupid question, but I don't know the answer so I will ask...Do you have to know how to ski to split board? How hard is it to learn to split board?
Ky, when you are actually riding it's a snowboard, so you don't need to know have to downhill ski. However you do need to know how to skin, which is basically walking with ski's on. You would also need to know how to maneuver the ski's on their edges, incase you are going up a really steep slope and have to side-step or you are on glacial terrain.
These things are easy enough to learn with a little practice. If you are a good snowboarder, picking up downhill skiing is actually really easy. I tried skiing for the first time last year and was going down black diamonds at the end of the first day. While the sports are completely different, many elements are the same for example, like understanding snow conditions, knowing how your edges respond, committing to your turns etc...
Cool, I understood that you "skied" up and snowboard down, but just wasn't too sure how hard the ski up part was to pick up. Are you feet positioned on the split board (when together) the same way they are on a snowboard or are they position forward like on skies?
While skinning at Alta yesterday there were some slight down hills in which I picked up speed. I just pretended I was a tele skier and lifted the hill in order to turn and slow down.
Are his legs strapped together? Ive seen people on those at the hill before but I never noticed strapping the legs together. I suppose that is just because I try not to look at them too closely for fear of it rubbing off on me.
It is a different type of skiing all together and for some reason they take pride in being a free-heeler. :dunno: There are also Alpine ski setups that allow to lift the heel for skinning up the hill.
I ride with some teleskiers that are absolutely nuts. Last year at Jay Peak there was a teleskier in the top 3 in the big air comp. Living in an area with lots of tight backcountry stuff there are a lot of very good teleskiers out earning their turns all the time. Most of the locals on skis either have Tele skis or AT (the releasable heel skis)
In this day and age I don't really see a place for teleskiing or monoskiing. Both seem to encumber themselves needlessly. Monoski combines the worst aspects of skiing and snowboarding whereas the only advantage teleskiing had was rendered obsolete by Touring bindings for alpine skis. They will be activities relegated to ski blade status soon.
Im pretty sure that anyone who says that Teleskis will be obsolete and go the way of skiblades doesnt know any real teleskiers.
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