A word to the wise: gather everything you need for a DIY splitboard before you make the first cut. The process is much smoother with everything in one place.

You hike up the mountain on skis; you ride back down on a snowboard. It’s a splitboard—and its popularity is exploding. And it’s easy to see why: A splitboard finally opens up the backcountry to ...

Editor’s note: The following is part of a series of articles compiled by the Colorado Snowsports Museum and Hall of Fame that will take a closer look at some of the artifacts and stories contained in ...

It’s finally March, and that means the meat of backcountry touring season is nearly here. To get prepared, local AT skiers and splitboarders are taking over the Summit Daily sports section in print ...

For skiers, seeing a mountain you want to ski down but no chairlift isn’t a problem. If you have the right boots, you attach sticky, grippy “skins” to the bottom of your skis and ski your way up. It’s ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – South Tahoe will host its first splitboard-centered festival, the Echo Lakes Splitboard Festival, Friday through Sunday at the Strawberry Lodge. The event is designed to ...

Colorado’s largest splitboard-focused event takes place this weekend at Winter Park and on Berthoud Pass, bringing together both splitboard experts and those who want to try for the first time. Front ...

Splitboarding has been around since the mid-’90s as a way to make backcountry snowboarding available to the 99 percent of us who can’t afford helicopters. It’s essentially a snowboard that splits down ...

Drew Zieff is a Tahoe-based freelance writer whose expertise ranges from snow sports in the winter to camping accessories in the summer. First tracks at the resort are fleeting due to crowded lift ...

In the last year, splitboarding has reached a tipping point. Ski movie stalwarts Teton Gravity Research released Deeper, which featured snowboards that transform into skis, to much fanfare. In the ...