New Dynafit Adapters, free beer from the Kyrgyzstan Plan and free magazines

We’ve redesigned our Dynafit adapters for the ’09/’10 season.  This system allows hard booters to drop 340 g (3/4 lb) off their feet while touring – and increases edging power.  The toe pieces can be used in a releasable mode for increased safety in avalanche areas, or a locked mode for maximum security.  Uses only
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Vote for Spark in the ISPO Awards!

The ISPO Brand-New Award recognizes innovation in sports. Our newest binding, the Fuse, is featured in the contest, and so we’d like you to… We’re proud to be in the competition, and may the best splitboard binding company in Bozeman MT within a few blocks of the Filling Station win!
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3rd Annual Dirksen Derby 12.13.09 – Splitboard race division!

Hey folks, Our friend Josh Dirksen sent us an email about the 3rd annual Dirksen Derby coming up in about a month.  From years past it looks really fun, how could a “snowboard rally race” not be that way?  New for this year is a splitboard division, results will combine time on the way up
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TGR press and Jones

Some more images and words that keep coming our way from the top riders on the planet like Jeremy Jones: http://www.tetongravity.com//photos/Jeremy-Jonesandhistrusty-Spark-R-Dsrelaxbetweenlines-5074355.htm We are proud to be involved with ‘Deeper’ and are super pumped to see what comes about next year! Congratulations to Jeremy and the new Jones Snowboards company. In celebration we whipped up a
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Turn your iPhone into a clinometer, compass and altimeter for free

Mammut has created an iPhone app that functions as a clinometer, compass and altimeter as well as receive avalanche bulletins worldwide.  It’s also free, very cool! Click the image below to go to Mammut’s website: In other news, John and I made our first turns of the year yesterday afternoon, stoked! It’s been snowing all
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Well look who’s here!

It’s frosty! 9.30.09 first snow of the season at Spark R&D HQ.  Bring it!
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Check out the new hotness!

Spark R&D is psyched to bring you splitphiles news on our fresh binding! Introducing for the 2009/2010 season.. the Fuse! Following up the Backcountry Editors Choice Awarded Ignition II, the Fuse has a pile of improvements. We will be manufacturing the baseplates and heel loops completely in house, offering a solid one piece CNC design,
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Custom Baseplates

We recently received the following email: Hi Will, This season I’ve been getting pushed around by some d#$chebag heli opps for riding “their stash”. So I was hoping you have some white base plates for the Bent Metal Biscuits. I’ve got a white one piece and splitboard and next year I can center punch all
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Spark R&D proud to be involved with ‘Deeper’ and ‘POW’

Spark R&D is proud to announce that we’re sponsoring ‘Deeper’, a backcountry big mountain snowboarding film in the works from TGR and Jeremy Jones. From the source: The film is a two-year project and is slated for release in the fall of 2010. “We are focusing on the hard to reach zones that are not
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New Graphics!!

We are putting a new binding together with our current Ignition II baseplates, built around the Bent Metal Biscuit binder. They have a different graphic.. so we drew up some new art for our baseplates, check em out! We have a few pair of both Black and Red Larges in the store as we speak,
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