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Atomic Snowboards feature a product line focused on the ride from backcountry to freestyle snowboards. The boards are built in Altenmarkt with a focus on being environmentally friendly to help protect the playground we love to play in. The environmental efforts feature the Renu board construction on the Poacher Renu and Alibi. The Renu board [...]

Location: Keystone, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to icy snow conditions during night riding. Setup: I rode the Atomic Stasher with Union Force bindings and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: 156cm First Impression: Definitely a backcountry freestyle board with the stiffer flex this has…not your typical resort park flex. Weight: little heavier than average Flex: [...]

Location: Whistler, BC Snow Conditions: Bluebird with hardpacked ice in the morning and slush in the afternoon. Pivot was the 2nd board of the day, so it hit some ice and some softer snow. Setup: I rode the Atomic Pivot with Union Trilogy’s and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: I was on the [...]

When a good product comes along for a good price and lasts, snowboarders will buy it up. The Hatchet was one of those boards years ago and Atomic consistently makes products that are good, maybe not life changing or on the technology edge but consistently good. With the introduction of a splitboard last year, they [...]

So on Monday Santa Claus (aka Eric) delivered a very big and nice Christmas present to me. I was anxiously awaiting the Fed Ex delivery all day Monday. When the Atomic Poacher arrived, I checked it out and had to wait until the evening to play with it and start putting it together. For those [...]

Earlier this year I was able to spend the remainder of the season riding a Atomic prototype. At the time it was supposed to be a 08-09 release, but it got pushed back to being 09-10 release…and I get to say a little about it now. Each company has their own style of reverse camber [...]

Industry Profile: Atomic Snowboard Product Director Eric Pearson Shay: So tell us about yourself? Eric: I grew up in a huge town (300 people) outside of Blackfoot, Idaho. Winters are cold and the mountains nearby are rad! I grew up with strict parents who taught me to work hard (I figured out the play hard [...]

When I first saw it…I was glad someone who I wasn’t expecting took the risk, saw the potential and tried something new. Atomic for 2008-2009 introduced a binding called the El Presidente that has BOA technology on the ratchet. Unfortunately I missed out on the chance to demo the bindings but this is one binding [...]

Update 6/25/08: The Atomic Catalog Images has been added to the post at the very bottom. Always good to see Atomic at SIA. This year they bring a lot more to the snowboard table in terms of new ideas. Atomic introduces a splitboard to the line, the Poacher, which comes in a 157cm, 164cm and [...]