Greetings from Bozeman!
Wednesday, 03 September 2014
An open letter from your friends at Spark R&D I don’t know about you – but the past year FLEW by for us at Spark R&D! The introduction of our new Tesla System bindings last season left our phone ringing off the hook and our email inboxes flooded with email subject lines like this: “I
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WIN a pair of MAGNETOS!
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Spark has partnered up with Snowboard Mag on their weekly gear blast and we’re giving away a pair of Magnetos! All you need to do is sign up for Snowboard Mag’s gear weekly newsletter here: snowboardmag.com/newsletter and all the details for winning will be in the Thursday gear blast that you’ll receive in your email. Good luck!! Just
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Your Venture Starts Here.
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Our friends at Venture Snowboards, share a little insight into their brand, and their mountain culture with this video short. Enjoy!
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Winter Returns to the East Coast
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
DTK Episode 3.2 This rewinds back to a few of our mid-winter 2013 splitboarding missions. With a solid snowpack in place, we dug deeper into spots that had previously left us broken and battered. From posting up in a remote cabin to pre and post workday missions, we’ve been burning the headlamps at both ends
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Rightside Productions presents an East Coast Split Web Series
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Episode 3.1: Into the Forest Winter is short enough on the East Coast. Add multiple thaws, every form of frozen precip, and shrapnel-filled forests and it’s enough to make us wonder why we even bother. Episode 3.1 documents the first half of the season splitboarding in Vermont—a season that’s been full of highs and lows,
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Spark Rider Marcin Jaskolka, Karkonosze in Poland
Wednesday, 06 March 2013
“CHIEFTAIN’S GOOD BUT HE’S A ROBBER” Sticking your head out of the tent in the morning gives you a feeling something bad is approaching you at a speed of light. In a moment you realize it happens to be only a fog, so you immediately fasten your board. The next beautiful day in mountains is
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Friend of Spark, Spenser Shared an Edit
Friday, 07 December 2012
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SPARK CELEBRATES 5th ANNIVERSARY, TALKS 2012/13 PRODUCT
Thursday, 30 August 2012
SPARK R&D CELEBRATES 5th ANNIVERSARY, TALKS 2012/13 PRODUCT, and GIVES AN UPDATE ON THE EDISON INTERFACE Spark R&D has always been about maximum fun and performance in the backcountry – it’s the only reason why we exist. We have been leading the charge on improving split gear ever since founder Will Ritter took his first
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Think Between the Lines
Friday, 04 November 2011
Michaela Precourt last year raised enough money to buy a fleet of splitboards for her College. She then used them for the backcountry snowboarding program she created for a company in Alaska called Wild Alpine. For the past two years, Michaela has been building curriculum, guiding, marketing, and basically doing whatever she could to get
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Splitboard Education Company
Friday, 28 October 2011
Here at Spark, when we aren’t making kick ass splitboard bindings, we are very fortunate to work with and support a number of great organizations. Recently I had the opportunity to correspond with someone over at the Splitboard Education Company. This crew is doing their part to push our sport and educate splitboarders. Good on
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