Join us! Fourth Phase Premiere/ NWAC Fundraiser
Washington Friends: Come join us this Sunday! Your own friendly local binding builders will be enjoying the premiere of the next level of Travis Rice & Brainfarm's snowboard cinematography, raffling gear and enjoying delicious beverages to raise money for the NorthWest Avalanche Center. Follow the event link below to RSVP! http://Screenings.TheFourthPhase.Com/karakoram/TheCleverBottle
Northwest Avalanche Center Benefit Warehouse Sale!
Calling all splitboarders of Washington state and the rest of the Northwest! Come on out to our shop in North Bend, WA to get the best deals you'll find anywhere on Karakoram bindings, accessories, and apparel all while supporting the Northwest Avalanche Center! Who?: You! You can contribute to our local avalanche center, NWAC! What?: We'll be selling both Prime bindings and Split 30 bindings along with accessories and apparel. When?: Sale only during 1pm-7pm, Monday-Friday, the week of August 17th-21st, 2015. Where?: 1546 Boalch Ave. NW, North Bend, WA How?: Buy a pair of Karakoram bindings, accessories, or apparel and a
The 2015 Mt. Baker Splitfest: It happened!
Yes! Despite the lack of snow this winter we we're still able to make the Mt. Baker Splitboard Festival happen. The lack of snow more so exists at the lower elevations of our mountains but up higher the snowpack is hanging in there. One of the concepts of a splitboard anyway is to get up higher, so there was no reason not to hold the event! Bryce making his way down a fun little ramp. Photo: Paul Stanley On day 1, we had enough time beforehand to go for a quick ride in some interesting and somewhat dangerous
Mt. Baker Splitboard Festival
The Mt Baker Splitfest is indeed happening this weekend! If you are planning on going and would like to demo a pair of Karakoram bindings, we will be bringing our entire demo fleet with us. Last year we sent out every pair of bindings we had so it may be a good idea to sign up to demo a pair in advance! If you would like to sign up for a pair ahead of time, please send an email with your name and boot size to robert@karakorambc.com by this Thursday! See you there! We're giving away two sets
Mt. Baker Splitboard fest This Weekend
The Mt. Baker Splitfest is this weekend March 28-30. This will be the first public on snow demo for our Prime Splitboard System. Come on out and check out the new gear for 14-15. We will have seven sets of Primes Bindings available for demo and 16 sets of SL bindings available. Bindings will be set up Friday evening and Saturday evening. If you'd like to reserve a set of bindings contact chad@karakorambc.com with your boot size and day you would like bindings. Chad will confirm your reservation. Demos are free, though we suggest a donation of $20 with 100%
Mt. Baker Splitboard Festival
The Mt. Baker Splitfest is March 22-24. Demos on Saturday and Sunday. The Raffle supporting the NWAC is Saturday night, Grand prize is a Jones Solution with Karakoram Carbon SL bindings. We will also be raffling off a set of Split30 bindings and 20 sets of board clips. Come on up for the festivities!
Fun Times at the Dirksen Derby
[br]We had the opportunity to make it down to Mt. Bachelor, Oregon for the Dirksen Derby this year. The Dirksen Derby is one of the first snowboard events of the season, so lots of industry folks make it to the event. It was pretty cool to race against some of the best riders in the world like Terje Haakonsen and Temple Cummins. Needless to say, I did not win… [br]Josh Dirksen has been putting this event on for six years. The Derby is a great event with a great cause, all proceeds go to cover medical expenses for his friend
Mt Shasta and the Great Pleiadian Eclipse Alignment
“On May 20th, 2012, for the first time in 26,000 years the sun, the moon and the constellation responsible for our evolution and ascension, the mysitc Pleiades, [aligned] in a spectacular total solar eclipse directly over one of the most powerful, mysterious, spiritual vortexes in the world: the mighty Mount Shasta” (http://www.divinetravels.com/Shasta.html). Chris, Tyler and I drove down from Seattle to meet up with the Jones, TGR, twsnow and Further crew, for this was a once in 26,000 year event we couldn’t miss. Anticipation was high and everyone was on the look out for Lemurians, UFOs and Crystal Cities ascending.
Mt. Baker Splitboard Fest Recap
The third Mt. Baker Splitboard festival was great time. The last two we worked up until the last minute to finish off prototypes and demo bindings. This year we were a little bit more prepared, but we still rolled in a little late for the Demo set up on Friday evening. We’ll be on time next year… I always look forward to the Mt. Baker Splitboard fest because it is the time of year that I actually get to ride my snowboard a bit more.
Kalifornia Split Party 2011
I don’t really know what to say except, “Man, I can’t wait to go back!!!” This was the second year for Bryce and I to attend and the Kalifornia Split Party didn’t disappoint! Josh, Mike, and the crew did an amazing job all around, but I have to especially thank them for ordering up the healthy helping of deep pow. Not sure how they did it, but they must have an in with the snow gods :-) We flew in to Reno, picked up our economy car, and as we were about to head south on 395, the Russman
Mt Baker Splitfest 2011
What a difference a year makes… last year at the first annual Baker Splitfest we unveiled our new Split30 system to the public for the first time. We scrambled like mad to get everything in order for our first demo and I have to admit the nerves were a bit high, our minds running, “What will people think?” Fast forward to this past weekend… we sold out of bindings in December, had a great showing at SIA, and have some new partners for the 2011/12 season. It’s been a whirlwind of a year and there is no better way
Deeper Unplugged in Seattle this Friday
For anyone that missed the Deeper Unplugged showing in Bellingham, it is showing again this Friday August 27th at Evo's location in Seattle. Tyler and I will be at this showing with our latest set ups for people to checkout. Click here for more information. We hope to see you there!
Deeper Unplugged Premiere 8/20/10
Tyler and I are going to be at the Deeper Unplugged showing at the Boundary Bay Brewery in Bellingham, WA this Friday, August 20. We'll have our latest binding system for people to checkout. For more information on the event click on this link to the Boundary Bay Brewery.
Kalifornia SplitFest
Two words to sum up this last weekend: Freakin’ Amazing! Day 1 Bryce and I really didn’t know what to expect going down to the Kalifornia Split Party, except that it was going to be an adventure. We decided last minute we were going and scrambled to get plane tickets. Keeping with tradition... the night before was another long one. Finishing up parts and packing by 1:30am and crawling out of bed at 4:30am, I sleepily flew to Reno where Bryce and I met up and began our road trip to Convict Lake. Taking in the epic views of the
Going to California!
The Baker SplitFest was so much fun that Tyler and I have decided to check out the Kalifornia Split Party which is being put on by a bunch of California splitters on splitboard.com. Here is a link to the Split Party thread. Neither of us have had the opportunity to ride/tour in the Sierra Nevadas, so this is too great a opportunity to pass up. We'll be bringing a demo Split30 splitboard system with us for people to try out.
Mt. Baker SplitFest
Leading up to the Splitfest Tyler and I were thinking we'd have a nice leisurely week getting ready. But again, true to form we cut it down to the wire. Our new boards for splitting didn't show up until Thursday night, some stainless parts we were waiting for were finally ready Friday morning, and our new straps arrived in Issaquah at 1:00 pm Friday afternoon. We were mounting t-nuts at 5:00 pm Friday.At 7:45 pm we were finally ready to go. We got on the road and made it up to Mt. Baker around 11:45. We met a couple of
Alpental Vertfest 2010
I wasn't able to get back to Seattle for the Vertfest, but Tyler got his first go at it. The race is mainly AT guys, but there were still 10 splitboarders. For those familiar with Alpental, the race went up under Armstrong Express to Chair 2, then up the Fan with a booter section and then up Rollen with another booter section with the up finishing at the entrance to International. The riding portion went down International, Snakedance and finished at the bottom of Sessel. Here is another write up with some pictures of the event: http://www.wildsnow.com/2721/vertfest-2010-race-recap/. This guy only