Dirksen Derby This Weekend

Dates: December 11-12, 2010 (Saturday and Sunday) . Saturday: The running order for Saturday will be as follows:   Grom Snowboarders will go first thing in the morning, then the Women Snowboarders, followed by the “Older and Wiser division”.  The Sit-Skiier divisions (which include mono-ski and bi-ski) will have the choice of dropping whenever they want
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VENTURE AND SKA BREWING WELCOME WINTER IN STYLE THIS SATURDAY, 12/4

SILVERTON, CO – November 29, 2010 – Venture Snowboards and Ska Brewing are once again teaming up to welcome winter in style with their Sixth Annual Season Kickoff Party scheduled for Saturday, December 4th (Silverton Mountain’s opening day). For the sixth year running, the two homegrown Colorado companies are producing a small run of custom
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Ankle buckle issue

UPDATED: DECEMBER 2010 Hey all, We’ve had some reports of the springs in the ankle buckles coming unclipped, which causes the buckle to flop around.  The buckle on the left below is normal, while the one on the right has an unclipped spring: Upon investigation it seems that our supplier used the wrong length of
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Early Season Dump

Check out some Friends of Spark getting some early season work in at Mt. Hood Meadows. Big thanks to Jacob Hase for sharing the pics.
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Say Hello To The New Mr. Chomps

Mr. Chomps gets a new look with improved features for the 2010/2011 season Here at Spark R&D we pride ourselves on providing the most innovative and high performance splitboarding gear on the market. With that in mind, we would like to introduce you to the newest version of our popular Mr. Chomps splitboard crampon. Stronger:
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The Blaze Binding Weighs In

So by now everyone has seen the new Blaze binding. Originally we had estimated our new binding weight rolling in at a trim 868 grams. An assured weight savings over last years Fuse, coming in at 980 grams. Well now we are here to apologize to everyone. In designing the binding, we improved the strength
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Water to Wine Premiere

Hang out with Spark R&D at Storm Shadow Productions premiere of Water to Wine. There will spark swag given away and a chance to win a pair of the new Blaze bindings as well. A Montana-made ski & snowboard film! The first premiere is Wednesday, September 8th at MSU’s Procrastinator Theater – shows times at
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THE BLAZE

The next generation is here. Introducing the BLAZE splitboard binding for the 2010/2011 season. Since the very beginning, Spark R&D has been a rider-owned and operated business, pushing innovation in the sport of splitboarding – because that’s what we LIVE for. We are all splitboarders. We have spent hundreds of days in the backcountry. We
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Kalifornia Eastside Splitfest

For some photos and stoked-ness, check out the splitboard.com thread Though we couldn’t make it out to this one, we did send along a little something special as a raffle prize … We thought you might enjoy some thoughts from the winner (schwalbster from splitboard.com): Am I the most stoked Dude or what? I’m the
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First Female Snowboard Descent of the Grand Teton!

On March 11, 2010 Dani Deruyter became the first woman to snowboard off the peak of the Grand Teton in Wyoming! (If you look close enough in the photo, you’ll see that she’s rockin’ her trusty ‘ole Spark R&D bindings). Congratulations Dani on a huge accomplishment! Read the trip report HERE, it’s a good one.
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