great powder board

By Richard Possin Ranked #66 - Snowboards February 10, 2011

The description is a pretty good indicator of the conditions that this board is suited to. It's not a full blown powder axe, but it eats fresh, deep powder for breakfast.

Let's face it, unless you are jumping out of helicopter or hiking for all your turns in the backcountry, there's not many days out on any hill when you aren't going to need to negotiate some gnarly traverse or a shitty gully runout or a wind-blown icy face to get to the goods and this is where this board has it over a fish. Also, if you go switch, you won't die. For me, it is a great compromise between a fish and an all mountain or freeride board. I was riding this board in japan for the last 3 weeks just about everyday, with lots of fresh snow (some nights we were getting 70cm of fresh) and I've gotta say this board was great, a big fat shovel nose to keep that nose up is really good.

Only slight negative is the fact they've changed the ICS screw mounts for the 2011 boards. I have a 2010 supermodel X and a 2009 love which have the old screws and now this board with the new ones and 2009 cartels which means I have to carry 8 screws/plates instead of 4.

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