Spark R&D Team Trip: 2023
Tuesday, 04 April 2023
In January 2023, Will, Luke, and Dan from Spark R&D met up with some of Spark's Team Riders and Shred Fam ambassadors in Badgastein, Austria for three days of splitboarding, high-fives, good meals, and good times.
- Published in Cool Stuff, Spark Hits the Road, Spark in the Field, Spark World Wide, Team Spark
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Elena Hight – Edge of the Earth
Wednesday, 02 November 2022
Last season, I was lucky enough to team up with TGR, Griffin Post and Jeremy Jones for the creation of what became the film Edge of the Earth. The adventure behind the riding is really what got showcased during this film, which I love because that is what draws me to splitboarding; the challenge it takes to find good snow, technical lines, or just go somewhere you have never explored.
- Published in Cool Stuff, Spark in the Field, Team Spark
Treasure State Series
Monday, 21 February 2022
Last season, we set out to film three short splitboard edits in our home state of Montana. We wanted to ride three different ranges, with three different groups, and tell three unique stories.
- Published in Inside Spark, Spark in the Field, Video
An Interview with Rafael Pease
Monday, 13 December 2021
We had a chance to catch up with Team Rider, Rafael Pease. We chatted about filming with TGR in Alaska last season for the Mountain Revelations project and spoke a little bit about what he's up to this winter.
- Published in Cool Stuff, Spark in the Field, Team Spark
Trip Report: North Vancouver Island, BC Canada
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Last winter, Tear Rider Tamo Campos spent several weeks camped out at Mt. Cain on North Vancouver Island in Canada. He and his friends experienced a lot of different extreme weather and were able to explore all that the island has to offer on their splitboards.
- Published in Spark in the Field, Team Spark
Carpe Diem Episode 17
Monday, 06 January 2020
Carpe Diem is the splitboard driven web series from Spark R&D Team Rider Aurelien Routens. In Episode 17 he explores the Park de Ecrins in France.
- Published in Spark in the Field, Video
SCAN – Splitboarding in Northern Norway
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
SCAN is Antti Autti's latest all-splitboard documentary-style film where he explores familiar zones in northern Norway with a fresh set of eyes and no specific goal other than to spltiboard as much as possible. Antti's progression as a freeride snowboarder and splitboarder has been impressive to watch. The drive that allowed him to rise to the top of the freestyle competition scene is now directed towards exploration and human-powered missions.
- Published in Spark in the Field, Spark World Wide, Video
In the Field with the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center
Wednesday, 01 May 2019
The GNFAC is a tremendous resource for our backcountry community and I’m stoked they’re letting me spend a day in the field with them. As an active reader of the daily avy forecasts the center puts out, I’m pretty interested to see how the cake is made, as they say.
- Published in Avalanche Education, Spark in the Field
Out Here Episode 2: Chris Coulter Splitboarding in the Wasatch
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Thrilled to debut the second episode of the OUT HERE video series! Made in partnership with Jones Snowboards, the OUT HERE series shares the backcountry snowboarding adventures of Jones x Spark R&D ambassadors as they explore the outer reaches of their backyard mountain ranges.
- Published in Spark in the Field, Video
Kona Yuki
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
Last winter, Mike Handford, Tim Herbert and a crew of Niseko locals set out with the aim to spend a month climbing the lesser known volcanoes of Japan's north island of Hokkaido with the hope of a rare ascent of Mt Rishiri in the Sea Of Japan. 28 feet of snow dropped over the next month, sending the crew on a different journey. One they maybe should have expected as they spent every day surfing through the deepest snow of their lives. A failed mission? No way!
- Published in Spark in the Field, Spark World Wide, Video