A Guide to Board Kits
Our beloved Board Kits are back, with performance-centric biomaterial innovation baked into their core.
With tried and true bindings and essentials handpicked by our FOW community, the perfect platform for deep winter awaits - and it's available with a 20% bundling discount, a free custom binding mount, and more.
Which board kit is for you? That depends on your unique inclinations. Read our guide below for the perfect match.
Splits
Wallowa Range, OR. FOW: Jenny Trembley // Photo: Andy Cochrane (@andrewfitts)
For anything from a backyard hot lap to the most elusive mountain ranges on the planet, Dark Start splitboard kits promise nothing short of glory. Dark Starts are complete setups, available with your choice of the Belle Tour or Shepherd Tour, and bindings from either Spark R&D or Union. Each one of these kits caters to a specific taste and riding style.
Dark Start x Spark
Spark R&D needs little introduction in the world of human-powered snowboarding. All of Spark's bindings are crafted by a small team in Montana with meticulous attention to detail and an eye for efficient movement through the backcountry.
Riders that select the Dark Start x Spark configuration favor it for its supportive feel and the smooth touring capabilities enabled by thoughtfully engineered aluminum components.
Dark Start x Spark: shred-ready touring capability with a 20% bundling discount.
Dark Start x Union
Union's take on splitboard bindings represents a different, but equally compelling approach. The crowd-pleasing Union Charger binding blends touring capability with a more forgiving and traditional feel upon descent. If you're a rider who appreciates more board feel through your feet, or simply desires an experience that better represents the sensation of your inbounds setup, the Dark Start x Union is your ticket.
At the end of the day, both configurations are different approaches to the same human-powered goal. Dark Start x Union pictured above. Select any splitboard and get 20% off the whole package.
Solids
Our Sidecountry Slasher solid board kit honors the versatility of our board shapes with a healthy helping of accessories, including the Force - our favorite inbounds bindings from Union.
The Belle Aire's big personality shines in big mountains, with a speed loving, stable chassis that's not afraid to arc big turns and get airborne.
The Shepherd brings ample stability with its chatter reducing, biobased construction, with an incredible aptitude for technical mountain goating, or as a big nosed alpine surf tool. Some of us will even go up a size in the Shepherd solid relative to its split sibling, with the intention of optimizing its incredible flotation for the deepest days.
Slash to your heart's delight.
À La Carte Options
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