Sunday ski trip with the university Ski & Snowboard club to Owl’s Head. Usually a powdery hill almost 2 hours into the townships from Montreal. Small resort, but offers some nice steeps and interesting runs and terrain, but unfortunately lacks any real snow park.
Time to test out for the first time a newly acquired, (but not newly conditioned) pair of Adam Lynam signature Revel8 skiboards. Bus ride and RedBulls later, I found myself at the hill, with no real freshies in sight and hard base everywhere.
Skating around flats is a little harder for shorter folks like myself on these, but not enough to complain. In east coast glades, they are definitely more to handle length wise in tight trees. The larger turning radius forces you to pick your lines wider, or scrape the tails out for tight turns. I wasn’t able to try them out in anything deeper then half a foot of untouched snow, but my impression was that these things wouldn’t even require a setback to handle deep snow.
Off to what little of a park Owl’s Head could offer, two rusted 15 footer boxes, a tall and short flat rail and a miserable 10 footer jump. The extra length poses no danger to messing around on jibs, but shorter legged riders might find it harder get creative with slides, presses and butters especially if they are used to riding shorter twigs. With the pretty large turning radius and extra length, landings are like bolts with low chance of ballerina effects.
Now to the steeps and groomers. The diamonds where calling so I had to obey, I gladly responded by bombing down the “Kamikaze”. Even with patches of ice littering the runs like unmarked hazards, the edges of these sticks held up great on almost anything presented. The speed with which I could lay down huge carves and not have any edge chatter was thanks in part to the larger turning radius of these sticks. To me this is where these planks are the most impressive, I don’t even think I was able to push these to their limits.
If you like to bomb steeps, carve fast, fancy big airs or also ride longer sticks like the man himself, you owe it to yourself to get these strapped to your feet. Open up, bomb & enjoy!
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