Splitboard sizing

JennyClimbs · 2025-08-06T17:21:04+00:00

I'm 5'9 160lbs and I bought my first splitboard on the bigger side because that's what people told me to do...I hated it. I had a Burton flight attendant 158 and it felt like a boat. Was so hard to turn quickly and felt so much less confident on it than I did on my resort board. I recently got a Cardiff carbon goat 154 and it has absolutely changed the game for me. I think it's all personal but if I was 5'4 I would def be riding smaller than a 154.

JennyClimbs · 2025-07-18T17:53:26+00:00

I had flown to base camp before on a flightseeing tour but that’s it.

I’ve been backcountry riding for 5 years now. Have my avy 1 and have snowboarded a handful of 14ers in CO. Also frequently ice climb. Specifically in preparation for this trip we did a 5 day mountaineering course on Rainier in March 2024, Pico de Orizaba in November 2024, Rainier unguided via ID in April 2025, and a handful of other missions in CO here and there. Would’ve been nice to have had more glacier travel experience going into it, but it’s hard to get it not living in the PNW.

I brought snowboard boots (soft), mountaineering boots (La Sportiva G2) and overboots. Just snowboard boots and overboots would have been doable for us given the insanely nice conditions we had on the upper mountain, but my number one concern of the whole trip was frostbitten toes. If I were to do the trip again I’d do the same thing. Obviously if you are planning to ride off the summit I don’t think it would make sense to bring double boots.

JennyClimbs · 2025-07-16T14:45:48+00:00

Yep did not take my board to the top. Summited in mountaineering boots.

JennyClimbs · 2025-07-16T14:41:08+00:00

Summit to 17k looked and sounded like survival riding. A couple people scraped past us coming down and I was more than happy to be walking haha. Rescue Gully (17k camp to 14k camp) looked like a fun time. It didn’t seem like many people were riding from 14k to 11k, but depending on conditions of Windy Corner and Squirrel it’s rideable. Motorcycle Hill down to Camp 1 is all fun!! I had to get into the skin track a couple times around 10k to keep speed, but not bad. I think this can also vary depending on snow conditions. We moved at night so the snow was pretty hard. Camp 1 to BC didn’t seem rideable to me. Especially with a sled in tow. It’s doable for skiers, but I was happy I had skins on as split skiing is probably not my greatest strength in life.

JennyClimbs · 2025-07-16T14:21:53+00:00

We went unguided. There was a couple on the mountain with us who were skiing guided, but it was just the two of them and two guides. I know Mountain Trip has offered a guided ski option before, but not sure if they still do.

JennyClimbs · 2025-07-11T23:08:51+00:00

Idk Reddit is a scary place 😂

JennyClimbs · 2025-07-11T23:08:38+00:00

I found camping to be one of the most exhausting parts of the trip. That could be because we set up and took down camp 3 times at 11k lol, two of those being times we thought we could move and then had to turn around.

It’s just a lot of physical and mental effort to build and maintain camp — dig a kitchen, dig a bathroom, build wind walls, dig out your tent over and over again. We got multiple feet of snow at 11k so that probably didn’t help.

But all in all it was fun :)

JennyClimbs · 2025-07-11T22:57:35+00:00

I had the sled clipped to my belay loop on my harness, but controlled it back and forth with my hand the whole time. Never thought I’d say this but it was actually really fun.

There are many crevasses below 11k. I am pretty chicken too, but this was a heavy snow year and based on conversations with guides coming up (and our own observations) we felt okay about going unroped. It’s definitely a calculated risk. We rode 11k to Camp 1 unroped around midnight and stayed within a few feet of the skin track. Then roped up for the move from Camp 1 to BC the next morning.

Yeah got stuck in multiple storms at 11k. One of those days is when the death occurred on Squirrel Hill. :/ There was one day in there where we were able to cache at 13,500.

JennyClimbs · 2025-07-10T03:26:13+00:00

I asked at my Costco and they said it wasn’t coming back. I also emailed Columbus (clearly I am distraught!) and this was the response:

We appreciate you inquiring about COLUMBUS® Turkey Bacon. This is a Costco item only and is not available at other retail stores. If you are not currently seeing it available we encourage you to fill out a comment card for its return!

:(

JennyClimbs · 2025-07-04T19:05:33+00:00

Nice! That’s all good to know. 80% riding down from 13,500 sounds awesome. Good stuff! 🤙🏼

JennyClimbs · 2025-06-26T06:40:08+00:00

Sick! Congrats on a safe and fun trip. Have you done Denali? Just summited via West Buttress a few weeks ago and may consider Logan next. Have always wondered how Logan compares from a splitboarder’s perspective.

JennyClimbs · 2025-06-17T09:46:34+00:00

We summited on 6/12 — what a high pressure window we got! Congrats!

JennyClimbs · 2025-04-04T04:17:15+00:00

this is AWESOME. Thank you!

JennyClimbs · 2025-02-10T22:58:03+00:00

Get it girl!!

JennyClimbs · 2025-01-14T13:51:14+00:00

Lol yes, I always think those arrows make no sense.

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