BUY ONLINE This is the board for sniffing out the deepest powder.About the same size as a shot of tequila, it works in much the same way: things start off just fine, but before you know it you’ve lost your friends, have powder all over your face and the last four hours have become one huge blur. With a blunt-nosed rocker, fishtail and directional shape here you have yourself something resembling an ideal powder board. Having the right board on a waist-deep powder day can be the difference between countless tomahawks or an out of this world experience. Its a fitting name for the way it rides. This is probably the least versatile board on this list. The best performing volume board ever imagined! Picking a powder specific snowboard is a bit like turning up to a room full of people for an evening of speed dating. The Never Summer Peacemaker has a soft almost freestyle flex that butters super easy, rides the park well and even the mountain pretty well for how soft it is in the middle but where it really turned me on was with the extra set back pair of inserts they call Powder Pack. The stubby, crescent-shaped tail drives down and takes most of the effort out of the ride, while that elongated nose rocker handles the rest.Taking its name and inspiration from a “Monster of the Deep”, this a proper backcountry behemoth. Happy shopping.Many guys will be thrilled to read that good things sometimes do come in small packages. And playing in the sastrugi, the variable, even the bulletproof. All-told, it’s maybe the most user-friendly of pow-specific planks, and really a great entrance into the world of deep-only riding.A mountain dilettante, by way of Baltimore and SoCal, raising a family in the Tetons on an endless quest for unobstructed views, high endorphin flow, experienced enlightenment, and the world’s best fried chicken. PHOTO: Mike Yoshida.Copyright © 2020 American Media, LLC. The one that makes you question how you’ve made it this far in life without it.There’s no single, winning formula when it comes to shape, profile or size for a pow specific deck. It’s got that rocker-camber-rocker blend that seems to balance float with precision, and its shape and size means the board can hit rails at the park into hardpack just as well as it can butter a tree outside the gates and stick the 10 foot drop to pow. Setback inserts work in a similar way, creating more nose than the tail. This kind of shape has become synonymous with floating over the top of big, deep powder fields. Powder slashes on steep terrain can be done with ease as it is so lightweight for a board you would predict to be heavy.It’s designed by none other than Wolle Nyvelt, the founder of ÄSMO Pow Surfers and a proud member of the Salomon snowboard team. There’s likely to be a few in there that you just want to point and laugh at. Justifying the purchase will be a tall order – until you get completely pitted during that first turn in the powder, that is. The Party Wave has a thumping 28 centimetres across the waist. With a perfect rocker and a fat waist for extra floatability, you’ll stay on top of the white wave, and its FSC Bamboo Surf Core ensures pop. SNOWBOARDER.SNOWBOARDER has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services.Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window),Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window),Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window),With a hybrid profile that puts camber underfoot with substantial rocker in the center, this board rides loose. The missing piece in the puzzle. SHOP POWDER SNOWBOARDS. About Powder Snowboards at evo: Yes, you can take any snowboard into the powder and have a good time, but there’s nothing like having the right tool for the job. PHOTO: Nick Hamilton,This board floats with ease and snakes through tight sections. Nestled in the British Columbia backcountry, Baldface is accessible in the winter only by helicopteror a combination of boat and snowcat when there are too many flakes falling to fly. If your interest is truly carving through the soft like a surfer down a wave, go no further than this powder board shape designed by surf shaper Chris Christenson. This is one of the best powder snowboards ever made, and the splitbboard version rips equally as hard with zero compromises.First thing I thought when I saw the Burton Deep Thinker: Craig Kelly’s Burton Air with a blunt nose. ALL MOUNTAIN SNOWBOARDS. Pow 3BT dramatically lifts the sidebases in the nose and slightly in the tail to keep you surfing with no dramas.As you would imagine it is amazing in powder, the board turns really well and doesn’t feel like the barrel of a shotgun but more like a revolver packing a big punch. Sure, it’s cool-looking with its ’90s Japanese powder boards surf-inspired shape. The turning torpedo from Jones Snowboards is back on the hunt this season. The rocker will keep you afloat in the deep while the fishtail makes turning a piece of piss. But it also kills it hitting kickers. Where you take it is up to you, but the Swifts playful durability and effortless float inspires a certain fluidity across a variety of terrain.While its hard to have a bad time riding powder, doing so on a board designed specifically for that purpose elevates the experience. This board is made to ensure that’s the most heavenly down you’ve ever had. It’s a bona fide beast for smashing powder laps around your home resort, though a quick glance at its spec could deceive the untrained eye.Last year’s 100 winner and unchanged for this season, the Bataleon Party Wave is viagra for the soul. If you only get a few pow days, make them count; and if you get a ton, this board’s a no-brainer.Yeah, the Lib Tech Skunk Ape kills it shredding pow.