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[ippy]

get a splitboard. Snowshoes are a temporary measure when you cant afford to spend $1400 on a setup. It beats not hiking with them, but man, id hate to break the trail in them. Three of us had shoes, the other three had splits/skis. It was pretty noticeable who was having the easier time of it

My advice: the splitboard craze is taking off... which means that by summer theres going to be a lot of people looking at their splitboard that they MAYBE got to use once and thinking "damn! i doubt im gonna use it next year either... i should probably try and recoup some of those costs!"
What with some well known brands flogging splits, theres going to be a LOT of people who bought them on the hype and will regret it. (: If you WILL use it (and none of us are immune to the lure of fresh pow fields or late season snow after all), then you might be able to pic yourself up some fully kitted out splits without dropping $1000 on them.

Incidentally Sparks new interface and binding for 2013 is pretty special.
No youtube uplad yet im afraid, and not sure how to embed vimeo clips. Its one of those innovations that you just look at and think "of COURSE!!! its so obvious!"



ETA: Yay! gogo ninja forums embedding vimeo automatically <3

[Method]

Karakorams are the shiznizzle in splitboard bindings, they make voiles look like some relic from the 15th century. I just spent half of January touring around hokkaido using them.

They're not especially cheap (like any bindings I suppose). I can't understand the japanese obsession with snowshoes (perhaps when gentem come out with a splitty things will change!), once you "split", you will never go back, trust me!

[Mongoose]

+1 for split board and Karakorams..
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