Comments on: Snowboard Review: 11-12 Burton Fortress

By: Shay

Shay — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:14:26 +0000

Mel, it’d definitely be a good choice. It won’t offer up the edgehold like MTX does but it’s a great freeride board for women coming out next year. I’d definitely see if you can demo a reverse camber board to see how you like them. There should be demo days from NS on the east coast soon.

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:08:34 +0000

How would the new jones mothership fit in this mix? It sounds like I should try to get an opportunity to demo a reverse camber and see how it works for me.

By: Shay

Shay — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:08:14 +0000

Mel, Definitely will try to help you out! Fortress would be a great choice if you want to stick to traditional camber like the feelgood you’ve been riding. Lotus and Envi are great choices as well and as you mention the MTX on the Envi will give you good grip on the icy days. Between those boards you have three great choices. The Reverse Camber in the Lotus and Envi will take some adjustment. For size, 152-154 would suit your riding and weight and skills.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:15:51 +0000

Looking for a little advice. Starting the initial thought process on a board upgrade. Currently riding a 149 traditional camber Feelgood (2006). Has been a great board for me all the way along. My riding has progressed from never ever to early advanced on it. This year my instructor told me I needed a longer board if I wanted to get more aggressive with my riding. That was the beginning of the season and I have just been continuing on the Feelgood, not wanting to lay out start of season prices. Now that we are mid season the deals are starting and I wanted to keep my eye out for a new board. I am strictly freeride, no park and not ever likely to change my mind as I am no spring chicken and I am looking for a board that will (a) increase stability with speed, (b) facilitate better edging and less washing out, and (c) be able to handle a variety of conditions but excel on ice (I board primarily in the Northeast and currently our “mountain” is a geological survey of layers of snow, rain, freeze for the last 2 months). Conditions can change from day to day though, one day it is bulletproof hardpack and the next it is shin high wet snow. Occasionally we get some fluffy stuff, in the spring we get mashed potatos after noon and you can pretty much count on at least one ice patch sighting per outing. As well I take it with me on occasional trips to fabled Whistler (and this year to Breckenridge) so while that is far from its usual conditions I would obviously want it to fill that niche as well. From reading the reviews I had pinpointed the Burton Fortress or the Never Summer Lotus as good candidates, however, I have also been impressed with the positive press on the Magnetraction technology which sounds like just the ticket for ice mountain and have added Roxy C2 Envi BTX to the mix. Are there any other boards I should be thinking of? Size wise I know I should go up – I’m 5’4″ and 135 pounds and was thinking 152 plus or minus a cm. Thoughts?