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Press Release: Jeremy Jones Partnering with Karakoram
PRESS RELEASE, Snoqualmie, WA- Karakoram is proud to announce a partnership with Jeremy Jones, renowned big mountain snowboarder and owner of Jones Snowboards. The partnership will combine Jeremy’s legendary backcountry freeriding experience and Karakoram’s innovative design capabilities with the goal of delivering products that redefine the backcountry experience for snowboarders around the world. “We started Karakoram to [...]
Read moreCrampons are ready for Spring Touring!
Karakoram Splitboard Crampons are here, just in time for the Spring corn season. The splitboard crampons are weighing in a hair above 6 oz (173g) per side, 12 oz (345g) a pair. That is .2 to .25 lbs (80 to 104g) lighter than our competition. In addition to the light weight design, the crampons nest [...]
Read moreNew Tip/Tail Clips
Tyler and I drove out to our injection molding supplier last night to check out our First Article Tip/Tail Clips. Most companies now days go offshore for plastic components, so we’re really excited to be working with a local shop that’s 25 minutes away. The Tip/Tail Clips are really simple parts, so there wasn’t [...]
Read moreAugust Testing on Rainier
Tyler and I got out last Saturday to test our improved ride mode interface and our first article bindings. For this trip we zipped down to Mt. Rainier and hiked up to a little below Camp Muir. On the ride mode interface we modified the toe attachment portion to be a single bent sheet [...]
Read moreSplit30 Technology Page
We’ve had lots of requests for more information on how the Split30 system works. I finally had the chance to put together a technology page and post it to the website. Click on the link below for more information: Karakoram Split30 Tech Page We don’t have any production bindings built up yet, so all of [...]
Read moreA New Toy and First Article Board Clips
I just picked up the first article inspection board clip bases on Wednesday. They look and feel a lot nicer than the prototype versions we’ve been using the last two years. The base is a really simple part, but a lot of thought went into making this a cost effective part. In the picture below [...]
Read moreKarakoram Split30 Change Over
I’ve had a lot of requests to post a video showing how our splitboard system works. I would have had the video finished yesterday, but we had about 12″ of snow in Little Cottonwood Canyon and I would have been breaking company policy if I had worked on a powder day . Here is the [...]
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