The snow hasn't stopped falling here in the PNW, which is great for snow accumulation, but not so hot for avalanche conditions.  Avalanche conditions were high to extreme this weekend, so Tyler and I decided to find some fun low angle trees in the Common Wealth Basin with some natural features to play on.  Here is a little helmet cam footage of what we found... Karakoram- Day in the Trees I'm working on trying to figure out how to get a little higher resolution video.

While I'm stuck behind my computer working on the 2011-2012 bindings (lots of top secret stuff we're working on here...)  I keep seeing friends getting after it on their splitboards.  Here's a little helmet cam video from Liz Daley shredding in Chamonix.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4FzZ-jQQ44]Liz's Prior Brandywine with Karakoram Split30s

Washington has had a bad month or so of snow, or should I say rain, but winter hasn't given up and the Snopacalypse is back!  Tyler just received some awesome pics from photographer Mike Stamm (www.mikestammphotos.com) of Mt. Baker local Dano Donnelly taking advantage of the new snow.Dano laying out a toeside slash Baker style on his Split30 splitboard system.There are a lot of different mind sets on what size split you should ride.  Dano showing us how it's done on a custom 158 splitboard made by his buddy Jake.Keep getting after it Dano!

Tyler and I have been working like dogs for the last three months, so we decided we deserved a day off this weekend.  We headed out with my wife and brother-in-law.  The timing of the little trip couldn't have been better because a big storm front just came through Washington.  I guess we were "working" because we were "testing" product :).   Needless to say, the testing went well!Mattia riding a pillow line.My wife, Melissa, "testing" her splitboard setup.Playing on the powder marshmallows!A fun sequence of Tyler playing hide-and-seek through the boulder field...and breath...hold your breath...and breeth...Now back to work.

Last weekend we (Bryce, his wife Melissa, my wife Marcy, and I) headed up to Flett Glacier on Rainier for some casual summer touring and camping. The road to Mowich had just opened and after talking to the ranger we were expecting good snow coverage starting at the lake. Unfortunately it had melted out quite a bit so we ended up booting up and over Knapsack Pass. Crossing the creeks, scrambling up the mossy roots and across a few snowy patches, we were over the pass and finally able to start skinning. Just over the pass we spied some fun

Late spring/early summer riding, one of the many great reasons to live in the northwest. So my day last Thursday: woke up and went to my paying job (no that's not working for Karakoram, yet :) ), cruised home at 5pm, met up with Aaron and headed up to Silver Peak to hit up the last of the late season up at the pass, at the trail head by 6:30pm a short hike to the snow before we can start skinning scoped the lines headed up the ridge dropped the west face down to Annette Lake and hit some killer

A couple weeks ago JimW invited Tyler and me to join the California splitboard crew on their trip to Shasta.   We jumped at the opportunity to check out a little more of the California split scene and also invited Russell to join.  50+ emails later the plan on where we were touring was still in flux, but we hit the road anyway. We just finished our new crampon concept around 5 pm Thursday and were looking forward to testing them out on the frozen late spring corn.  Despite finishing building the prototype crampon and hoping to be in bed at

It seems like this is the snow season that never ends, I'm not complaining because I love it.  I woke up yesterday to two inches of snow at my house in Sandy, UT.  Late April and May have been good to us in Utah.  My only problem is my normal touring partners have hung up their boards and skis and turned to biking and climbing. May 1st, Cruising up White Pine May 4th, PM patrol May 11th, lunch time pow run down Lone Tree at Alta May 14th, looking down down the Cirque at Snowbird May 22nd, looking down a

I just got some pictures from one of our first users, Toni Walbridge.  Toni has been riding his Karakoram Split30 splitboard system on his DIY Split Salomon Sick Stick 160 on tours in the Wasatch, sled-in tours in the Uintas, and slackcountry rides at Brighton since January.  Thanks for the pictures Toni!

I flew back to Seattle March 20th to prepare for our first demo at the Mt. Baker SplitFest.  My flight came in around 7 pm and I went straight to the shop to finish building up my bindings with the production changes coming from input from our beta testers.  We didn't change much, only combining a couple parts to shave more weight and reduce hardware.  True to Kloster form, Tyler and I finished machining and building the bindings around 1:00 am.We woke up around 6:00 am and threw our gear in the car and picked up Aaron by 6:30.  We

Snow conditions finally started to stabilize, so I was feeling good about riding some steeper lines with my friend Manuel and some of his friends from Chile.  The snow in upper Days Fork was nice on the north facing aspects.  Here is Manuel dropping into upper Days. The weather was perfect, so I skinned up to the Reed and Benson Ridgeline to take some pictures of Cardiac Bowl on my way to Toledo Chute.I skied down Cardiff pass in split mode and then skinned up to Toledo Chute.  Here is Adolfo on skiers right of Toledo Chute.  The snow was