Splitboarding!

Ever since I came back from Switzerland I got hooked with freeriding. My good friend Nick Nadeau and Swiss local Dom Beaudin (R.I.P my brother) have showed me the true lifestyle of big mountain freeriding. After all these years of pipe's and jumps and breaking my neck I realized how much I love playing with the terrain and when my surfing crossed the path of my snowboarding, I realized that what I really liked was to surf my snowboard more than anything else in the sport. I would like to dedicate my snowboard season to the loving memory of Dom Baudin and my sweet Grand-ma Aline Leger couture that passed away recently. You will be miss and remembered for ever.

In loving memorie of Dom Baudin 1976-2009

It's really hard for an East coster from Quebec to like freeride. The mountains are not like out west or in the Alps so it requires a little bit more of exploration. So me and Emilie got into splitboarding. Emilie was probably tired of earring about how much I wanted to make my splitboard, so my sweet heart got me my first DIY Voile split kit. So I did the same and building her a splitboard so that we could share this experience together.

From touring to riding in

about 2 minutes. The hike is so much faster and easier. Thanks to http://www.voile-usa.com/ for the greatest this awsome kit. Our winter's will never be the same...

Boards are ready, we decide to head out and try theses baby out. So we headed to an closedown ski resort in the Larentiens to get a good feel of our boards. First timer Emilie got the hang of it really fast and was stoked on here new splitboard.

Emilie hiking up 40/80 for testing the set-up

You don't just hike and ride down, you can also find some cool discovery in these closed down ski resorts. Here we found and old shed where they used to the snow making equipment.

A quick stop to eat and rest

And back on my own 2 feet...

We did about 4 hours of touring/riding at Gray Rock (if you ever drive by you can see that someone took the "R" down from Gray, you figure what's rest...) Unfortunately I don't have any picture of use riding... We where to busy riddin' !

More to come...