New Snowboard

So my favorite Christmas present this year, besides being able to spend the holiday at home with my amazing family :), was most definitely my Morrow Kava Snowboard. I bought it when I was in New York with the money that I got for Christmas. It came with Burton Freestyle bindings and I got a helmet as well. Grand total for the day: $440.00. I wish I could have bought everything back in New Hampshire, I would have saved $40 in taxes!

I put the new gear to test this weekend at Sugarbush and I absolutely loved it! Friday afternoon I bought my $100 seasons pass and hit the slopes. The conditions were really icy but the board rode great, I immediately noticed how much more control I had of the board and I could carve much smoother. My old board is a no name board that I got for free from my dad's work so it was not the greatest ride ever. My new board is a size 145 and a bit shorter than my old one and I think that makes a lot of the difference, also my roommate pointed out that my old board had no real edge! No wonder I fell whenever I tried to carve.

We woke up to about six inches of powder Saturday and could not wait to get back on the mountain. My board handled the powder pretty well, I was having a bit of a hard time with big snow piles but I manged to stay on my feet all the way down the mountain which is a great improvement.

The bindings are really nice but don't quite work with my boots from a couple seasons ago. No worries for this season but next season I'll invest in new boots. I also really wanted to get white bindings because they would have matched the board quite well but they only had black in my size. The guy at the store said I could get another kind in white but the black ones were a much better fit for me and the cheapest option so I bought the black ones.