The brand new Nokhu options excessive upturn or rise within the tip and tail off the board
These early rise kicks elevate the contact factors off the snow, giving the Nokhu a shorter working size, making it really feel like a shorter board and the final word tree board.
This enables for easy transition from edge to edge. Excellent for maneuvering in tight timber, glades, bushes, gullies, bumps and managing steep traces.
By no means Summer time Nokhu is a Quantity Shifted Snowboard. This implies it has a wider nostril than tail and is ready again stance for an extended tip. The broader nostril provides you extra floor space and set again stance provides extra nostril on the board, to maintain the board afloat in deep powder.
That is additionally enhanced by the shorter tail as extra weight is pressured over the again finish of the board, permitting the tail to sink and the nostril to pop up in deep, blower powder. This tapered form and brief tail allows the board to complete a flip easily and to brush the tail of the board round shortly. Conserving power and navigating via tight timber.
The shorter tail additionally permits a rider to spring load the tail of the board for leaping from one flip to a different.
Tremendous enjoyable for porpoising out and in of powder and doing hop turns in technical, steep runs.
What units the Nokhu aside from different Quantity Shifted board is By no means Summer time’s revolutionary Triple Camber Design. On the Nokhu you get the enjoyable, surfy really feel of a Quantity Shifted Snowboard just like the Lib Tech Orca however with the sting maintain and stability of By no means Summer time’s patented Triple Camber Expertise. The first edge maintain begins from the middle camber, this stress space additionally permits for straight monitoring predictability on excessive velocity groomers and catwalks. The surface camber areas positioned below your toes, when engaged present carving edge maintain like no different.
Nonetheless, they’re flanked by two smaller middle rocker zones. Giving a rider the benefit of the rocker pivot factors for ease of flip initiation, elevated glide and powder float. Triple Camber give the Nokhu the sting maintain for laying out massive activates groomers, stability on arduous pack and icy runs, whereas providing you with the loft once you pop off into the powder in timber and bowls. With the Nokhu you’ll be able to have a mid-flex that’s Very forgiving, however the triple camber provides it the steadiness of a firmer board. The Nokhu is surprisingly secure. It should reduce via chopped up powder, mow over slush push piles and stable in variable snow circumstances.
Measurement Waist Taper
152 26.1 13
155 26.3 13
158 26.5 13
161 26.6 13
161DF 28.1 13
Nokhu Break up:
We’ve additionally taken the Nokhu and break up it! This brings the insane edge maintain in variable circumstances, traversing and straight monitoring stability of our Triple Camber Expertise into probably the most nimble break up available on the market. The middle camber additionally gives stress for uphill pores and skin traction on these agency, icy, nicely crushed in pores and skin tracks. Float like a butterfly within the deepest low angle pow with its broad, early rise nostril. The Nokhu’s 13 mm of taper enable the board to snake via the tightest timber and the shorter working service allows a rider to tame these steep, technical traces like a Mountain Goat. This enjoyable, surfy break up will take your backcountry expertise to the very best peak.
Measurement Waist Taper
155 26.5 13
159 26.6 13
I had pleasure of driving Nokhu at Vail this previous spring and completely like it. I experience Vail and it is excellent the board for that mountain. I can get into the tightest timber on the entrance facet after which have the float and stability within the again bowls. It handles all of the variable terrain and circumstances Vail provides. The triple camber provides it actually good monitor capability for traversing throughout the bowls and once you get to the place you wish to drop in, you might have a dynamic turning machine. Getting out on the groomers the tri camber holds so nicely, it’s ideally suited for eurocarving. Lay out activates groomers after which the shorter working floor and large kicks in nostril and tail make it so nimble in timber. I like that broad nostril for pushing or browsing off the tree nicely piles. It’s such a enjoyable board. A very nice mid flex to be forgiving however nonetheless so secure.
A number of of our favourite Tree Traces in Colorado:
- Bacarat Bushes: In Sport Creek Bowl, there’s a swath of timber between the runs Bacarat and the Woods, that you could get recent tracks days and even weeks after a storm.
- Sheer Terror Bushes: These timber are between Riva Ridge and Prima. It’s a very lengthy tree run and may get your legs burning. The tremendous manageable, straightforward to experience, extremely maneuverable Nokhu is significant on this run to preserve power and navigate via the Sheer Terror Bushes. You’ll find yourself on the Brisk Catwalk the place the Nokhu’s Triple Camber design turns out to be useful to permit the board to trace down it with ease.
- West Vail Bushes: The West Vail Bushes are accessible from the highest of the Lionshead Gondola, only a brief hike previous the highest of the Pleasure chairlift. A ripper finish of the day run.
- Bald Spot Entry Gate: This can be a backcountry entry gate, so be correctly outfitted with an avalanche beacon, shovel, probe and all the time experience with a buddy. I like to drop in early earlier than the bald spot. This wonderful previous development fir and spruce tree playground has been identified to supply many gigantic face photographs.
- Arrowhead Aspens: The float of the Nokhu is right for meandering via these completely spaced Aspens.
- Land of the Little Folks: Aptly named, you’ll really feel transported to a fairy story world with snow mushrooms and trolls.
- Shadows/Closets: A number of the greatest Aspen glades in Colorado with a pleasant steep pitch and full of Steamboat’s notorious Champagne Powder.
- 1:30 and a pair of:30 Bushes: Reasonably tight, low angle timber in probably the most household pleasant areas at Steamboat.
- Mahogany Ridge: That is newer terrain on the Boat and positively value an exploration.
- Hanging Valley Glades: Should you’re into steep timber that is the spot. Being excessive up on the mountain this zone is vulnerable to get a variety of snow.
- Powerline Glades: The Huge Burn Chair has some nice low angle pine glades like Powerline. Terrain like that is excellent for the Nokhu to make brief radius, poppy pow turns.
- Enchanted Forest: Slice and cube your approach via higher or decrease Enchanted Forest for a magical tree shredding expertise.
- Gunbarrel Bushes: A number of the greatest tree driving within the Vasquez Ridge Territory. A combination of spaced out and tight timber, this can be a excellent place to seek out pockets of recent powder days after a storm.
- Hello-Lo Bushes- Low angle and reasonably spaced out, these timber are widespread and are simply accessible off of the Excessive Lonesome Categorical. Nice for riders who’re studying how you can experience timber.
- Tweedle Dee- Brief tree run that will get handed up by novice riders, this can be a nice space to begin the day and provides you a chance to experience one of many oldest operational lifts in Colorado.
- Phantom Bushes- Nestled between two of the more difficult runs at Mary Jane, these timber are tucked away and keep in a shadow for a lot of the day providing you with the chance to seek out leftover stashes.
- Trestle Bushes- Positioned off of probably the most widespread mogul runs at Mary Jane, these timber provide you with a combination of tight timber in addition to steep pitches that can get your coronary heart pumping. Really helpful for intermediate/superior riders.
- A-Basin
- Beavers: What was once accessible solely via a backcountry gate, is now inbounds terrain. The Beavers provides some nice tree shredding on a pow day or hit up Pallavicini Chair and the alleys on the snow browsing Nokhu.
- Monarch:
- Mirkwood Bushes: A brief hike rewards with some nice timber at this hidden gem of a ski space. Or cling skiers left and a few smaller cliff bands and extra technical terrain when the snowpack is deep.
- Elation Ridge- Slash some turns alongside the ski space boundary rope from high of Orcs and into broad open glades.
- Hanging Meadow- Hanging Meadow has a northwesterly facet, making it ideally suited for storing among the greatest powder on Berthoud and maintaining it from getting solar crusted. These wonderful open timber to a steep opening can also be a 38 diploma slope on the high, making it inclined to slides. So, have your avalanche eduction certification, rescue gear and examine Colorado Avalanche Data Heart forecast earlier than you enterprise out.
- Excellent Bushes- A stupendous space of timber that drop down from the ridge, offering a decrease avalanche potential and gives an space for some enjoyable powder turns.
- Floral Park- A low cardio, fast pores and skin or hike to among the greatest steep glade snowboarding and snowboarding in Colorado.
- Pumphouse Bushes: Decrease angle timber with a decent part popping out to the highway, ideally suited terrain for the float and maneuverability of the Nokhu Break up.
Written By: Vince Sanders (The Chairman of the Boards at By no means Summer time)
