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A seriously froth-inducing powder edit from the French Pyrenees

How long does it take you to get amped for the coming season? For us, it’s 2 minutes 17 seconds. And we’ve just watched the edit that’s got us preemptively packing our board bags and checking snow forecasts. Mat Crepel has just dropped one of the most froth-inducing videos we’ve seen in a hot minute, and if we didn’t like him so much we’d want to beat him up for making us so envious.

“Mat Crepel has just dropped one of the most froth-inducing videos we’ve seen in a hot minute, and if we didn’t like him so much we’d want to beat him up for making us so envious”

Mat hit the skin track in his backyard to put in some hellishly dreamy turns on the new Nidecker Escape Split. And while our skills are nowhere near on par with Mat’s, we took the same board out for a spin earlier this year to put it through its paces. Did we like it? No… We loved it. So much so that we awarded it a coveted spot in the Whitelines 100, naming it one of the best pieces of kit we tested all year.

Nidecker Escape Splitboard 2022-2023

Whitelines Choice Winner: Best Splitboard
PRICE: £675 / €700 / $680

There’s a reason your typical splitboarder is older. No, it’s not just that – to paraphrase Renton in Trainspotting – we all get old, we cannae hack the park any more and that’s it. It’s because splitboards and the associated touring paraphernalia are expensive, especially considering you don’t use them every day. That’s all changed with the arrival of Nidecker’s Escape Split. It’s a genuinely affordable platform for backcountry exploration that comes complete with skins. Best of all, it offers near-as-dammit the same friendly performance as the best-selling Escape.

Who Is The Nidecker Escape Split For?

Jones still dominates the splitboard market, and realistically, hardcore tourers and Jeremy fanboys will probably turn their nose up at anything without a certain mountain logo on it. The Escape Split will appeal instead to the army of folk who, since the pandemic shut lifts, have been inspired to dip their toe in the splitboard waters but don’t want to break the bank. It’s also likely to gain cult status amongst more open-minded freeriders who appreciate Nidecker’s manufacturing pedigree. Whisper it quietly but Nidecker owns Jones anyway (shhh)…

MORE INFO:
NIDECKERSNOWBOARDS.COM

 

Selected for The Whitelines 100 – take a closer look at the 2022-2023 Nidecker Escape Split

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