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pow_hnd wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:04 am

Blessed420 wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:43 pm next seasons japan trip it might work out.

Have you seen the trees in Japan? You don't want a big ass boat in Japan like that. You want something shorter with mad float that is nimble in the trees.

I have seen people get on decks like that here in Utah, which has similar tress to Japan and hate life because they just don't turn quickly enough and it tires them out.

I'm not saying go "short wide" but a proper pow deck, in a wide version, with a butt load of taper will be far more user friendly.

I.E. Korua Dart 156. - Burton Fish 56 - Capita Navigator 58 - Springbreak Powder Glider 58

Speaking midwest glades. But it's less deep, so I need less taper. Shortish, wideish, and twinish.... sits in my closet waiting for snow.

pow_hnd wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:04 am

Blessed420 wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:43 pm next seasons japan trip it might work out.

Have you seen the trees in Japan? You don't want a big ass boat in Japan like that. You want something shorter with mad float that is nimble in the trees.

I have seen people get on decks like that here in Utah, which has similar tress to Japan and hate life because they just don't turn quickly enough and it tires them out.

I'm not saying go "short wide" but a proper pow deck, in a wide version, with a butt load of taper will be far more user friendly.

I.E. Korua Dart 156. - Burton Fish 56 - Capita Navigator 58 - Springbreak Powder Glider 58

+1 on this

My japan trip board was the Fischuit 148 (I weight 60-62kg/132-136 lbs)

pow_hnd wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:04 am

Blessed420 wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:43 pm next seasons japan trip it might work out.

Have you seen the trees in Japan? You don't want a big ass boat in Japan like that. You want something shorter with mad float that is nimble in the trees.

I have seen people get on decks like that here in Utah, which has similar tress to Japan and hate life because they just don't turn quickly enough and it tires them out.

I'm not saying go "short wide" but a proper pow deck, in a wide version, with a butt load of taper will be far more user friendly.

I.E. Korua Dart 156. - Burton Fish 56 - Capita Navigator 58 - Springbreak Powder Glider 58

I'll partially +1 this. Some spots in Japan I would have loved riding my Dupraz 178. Some spots I wouldn't. Just depends on spacing and topography. I had a line through Tenjindaira backcountry where I was literally able to arc a carve through a tree'd zone, which was dope. Niseko and Hakuba on-slope would have been way too tight spacing.

Few years ago I was in Utah and the Dupraz was my only solid. That thing was sick at Snowbird in open and steep, but @pow_hnd took me over to Snow Basin through some tight quarters aspen zones-- I was VERY glad he lent me a Korua TF57. Would have been fine on my typical 163, but 178 would have been a little much lol.

When I rode the Cannon 203, it was dope as hell even in tight trees at Baldface with pitch. Where I ran into issues was low angle run outs through glades... tighter spaces to maneuver with less pitch to pop the board around quickly. I ended up swapping out for my Moss 162, but the 5-6 runs I took on the Cannon were all time. Couple times I took intentionally "bad" lines through untracked flatter zones to see if I'd get stuck and I glided ride through.

pow_hnd wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:04 am

Blessed420 wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:43 pm next seasons japan trip it might work out.

Have you seen the trees in Japan? You don't want a big ass boat in Japan like that. You want something shorter with mad float that is nimble in the trees.

I have seen people get on decks like that here in Utah, which has similar tress to Japan and hate life because they just don't turn quickly enough and it tires them out.

I'm not saying go "short wide" but a proper pow deck, in a wide version, with a butt load of taper will be far more user friendly.

I.E. Korua Dart 156. - Burton Fish 56 - Capita Navigator 58 - Springbreak Powder Glider 58

Only on videos as you can guess, thats the reason i said it out loud.

Huge difference between low angle and steeper pow in terms of what board you can choose. Greater pitch terrain gives you a lot more options, low angle not so much. My Burton Cheatah was the balls in steep and deep terrain, but it sucked ass in the kind of flat zones that my Fish or current Dart 56 would handle no problem.

thanks good to know! i have only ridden "deep" powder in austria and been all good with the 159 mercury but yeah gotta figure out something to take there.

This is what you’re looking for my dude
Rode in over a foot at beaver creek this week
Lapped larkspur bowl as the storm rolled in mostly off piste
then spent day 2 poaching low angle left over pow stashes in trees that most were afraid to touch
Also rips groomers
Niseko pleasures 156 (Tgr James biesty snowflake rating of course )

Unless you're going to some backcountry spot, most of the resorts in-bound runs in Hokkaido are all mellow grade, not a lot of steepness. Why most of the pros that live there are riding flat decks with little to no camber

@BFBF I was following the k2 team in Japan, and it was weird that none of them rode that deck, a lot of them were riding the k2 Special Effects though

Outsiders 56
Stevens 55
Tranny 57

Mercury 59

And jed anderson left his board next my workplace for somebody to grab it so i did

that’s sick, Jed’s awesome