For skiers, seeing a mountain you want to ski down but no chairlift isn’t a problem. If you have the right boots, you attach sticky, grippy “skins” to the bottom of your skis and ski your way up. It’s ...

Splitboarding has quickly become a big part of snowboard culture. For years, people have been creating their own board and binding combinations and have used them to conquer numerous first descents ...

Splitboarding is an extremely gear-dependent sport. Working alongside your own two feet, splitboards provide the means of travelling far and wide, in order to reach dreamy backcountry destinations ...

Splitboarding pioneer Will Ritter on the sport’s development and popularity, his technological contributions, and more. “All the pieces of the puzzle really came together, and specialized catalysts ...

In an average season, Alex Gelb gets about 85 days on the slopes. Not bad for a mountain town local – but only five of those days are spent jostling through lift lines at a ski resort. The other 80 ...

Splitboarding has been around since the mid-’90s as a way to make backcountry snowboarding available to the 99 percent of us who can’t afford helicopters. It’s essentially a snowboard that splits down ...

Every snowboarder knows that first tracks at the resort don’t last long. Luckily for the antisocial powderhound, ditching migraine-inducing liftlines for backcountry bliss has never been easier, ...

A poplar, aspen, and carbon core makes Never Summer’s 7.8-pound SL among the lightest of the dozen splits we tested. But the board was still damping enough to suck up 25-foot cornice drops in the B.C.

Huck 30-foot cliffs with a carbon board? Now that’s a serious claim. Weston updates the Backwoods in carbon for 2019. We toured in Wyoming and Colorado for this first look review. Sheer rock walls ...