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Location: Loveland, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to icy conditions on the mountain. Setup: I rode the Burton Feelgood V-rocker with my Burton Lexa bindings and Bonfire Geo boots. Size: 154cm. First Impression: The Feelgood and V-rocker go hand in hand, this board is better from it. Weight: Average Flex: The Feelgood had a softer tail [...]

Location: Loveland, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to icy conditions on the mountain. Setup: I rode the Lib Tech Banana Magic with my Force SL bindings and Bonfire Geo boots. Size: 157cm. First Impression: Definitely not the loosey goosey feeling of the Skate Banana, Banana Magic is all freeriders version. Weight: Average Flex: The Banana Magic [...]

Location: Loveland, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to icy conditions on the mountain. Setup: I rode the GNU Danny Kass C2 with my Force SL bindings and Bonfire Geo boots. Size: 155cm. First Impression: I’m a bit bummed there’s no halfpipe around to ride but looks like I don’t need just a halfpipe for this board. [...]

Location: Loveland, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to icy conditions on the mountain. Setup: I rode the GNU Street Series with my Force SL bindings and Bonfire Geo boots. Size: 154cm. First Impression: Definitely a jib stick that I’d keep in the park, I wasn’t sure it there was magne traction on the board either. Weight: [...]

Location: Loveland, CO & Timberline, OR Snow Conditions: Loveland was hardpacked to light powder on the runs.  Timberline, OR was hardpacked to slushy snow conditions. Setup: I rode the Never Summer Infinity-R with my Force and Force SL bindings and Bonfire Geo boots. Size: 156cm. First Impression: Weight: average Flex: The Infinity hasn’t changed much [...]

Location: Loveland, Breckenridge & Copper, Colorado Snow Conditions: Mixture of weather with hardpacked groomers, slush and hardpacked icy conditions. Setup: I rode the Capita Ultrafear FK with my Union Force SL’s and my Bonfire Geo boots. First Impression: This is my kind of porridge, just right for shredding…not insanely soft but not insanely stiff…still a [...]

Each season I take to the slopes to try/test/borrow snowboards to see how they perform and review them for this site. What started out as 10 boards a season has now become over 50 boards a season and I’m the only rider doing the review. This year with opportunities from multiple demo days, Board Insiders [...]

Location: Keystone, Colorado Snow Conditions: Overcast/Bluebird with hardpacked groomers to a mixture of conditions.  It was day 3 of demos and the Flow Era was the 2nd to last board of the day. Setup: I rode the Flow Era with Flow NXT-ATSE’s and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: Flow’s park reverse camber board [...]

Location: Whistler, BC Snow Conditions: Bluebird to overcast on hardpacked snow, choppy snow and ice in spots. Setup: I rode the Drake DF1 with Union Forces and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: Camber is like coming home…it won’t die and the DF1 proved that for me. Size: 155cm Weight: average Flex: The DF1 [...]

This review was done through Board Insiders and will be featured on their site as a review with video of me explaining the board and riding it. I’ll update this link to that when it goes live. Location: Stevens Pass, WA Snow Conditions: Snowing with powder, deep powder.  It was day 2 of the Board [...]