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Show Wasatch Canyon Reporter New Gear: Voile’s Split Decision Snowboard — Their are two growing areas in the ski industry, snowboarding, and backcountry skiing. Voile, the hip tele-oriented company based in Salt Lake has leapt on both trends with the coolest piece of gear ever to originate in the Wasatch: Split Decision. The Voile Split Decision is a snowboard craftily designed in two pieces to facilitate back country access. The Split board can be ridden like a normal snowboard, skied like a pair of fat powder skis, or used to skin up mountains in the back country. After-years of seeing Cowboy, a local inventor/snowboarder cruising around the Wasatch on various conjoined barrel-stave-contraptions it is have been used to get the goods illegally at Alta, which is closed to snowboarders. Split the board, put on a snappy ski outfit, and you too can pass for a skier, fooling all but the savviest of lifties. (This board is designed solely to help the owner get into nice to see that he has this board for any illegal chicanery.) Word on the hill is that its riding habits are well behaved in either split or mono setup. eof : __TTALIAN KITCHEN - Come Join tn completed Cowboy worked with Voile to complete his dream of easy snowboard back country access. We haven’t his invention. | | The Split decision retails for $625, but it is a Decision “Tractor” Skins. Curiously they offer the Split Decision Binding Kit separately. In their press material they men-| tion: “binding kits are | sold separately, without the pre split} the boys at Voile dragged down a production and it is snowboard; the most innovative back country tool we have yet seen. The skis/boards are available in two lengths, 175 cm, and 159 cm. The boards TERSGi tant cee ENING come pre-mounted terrain; Voile does not recommend good idea to get it with the optional $100 Split ridden it yet, but model, hard-to-access with most of the required hardware including latching hooks, touring bracket, and climbing bars. Kits are available in either “goofy” (a curi- ous piece of snowboard slang which means maladroit, or opposite stance,) or “regular” riding styles. Rumor has it that several times various iterations of this product Thus the financially challenged snowboarders | can mount their own board, and enjoy the} benefits of the Split Decision concept.” This allows any of you snowboarders with a hundred bucks At Defacto Mfg: the and a Sawzall to hop finishing touches being -on a home made ver- put. on the Split Board sion of the coolest ride in the back country. Call 801-973-8622 for more information. |
