Charlie Don't Surf

I've no idea what the name of this one is all about, or why it's so long. On the other hand it has a lot going for it just from the look of the thing in the shop:

• elegant design
• no crincle cut edges
• 4x4 inserts

But you actually have to ride a board to know if it's any good...

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Revelstoke is BC's newest big-noise investment. A few years ago it was just a small town on the Trans-Canadian highway with a local hill plus cat and heli-based riding. I knew it as a place the Greyhound stopped on the way from Calgary to Kamloops, and a CMH helicopter base. Two years ago that all changed, with the cat operator selling out to what is now "Revelstoke Mountain Resort" (RMR), who also picked up the local heli operator (Selkirk Tangiers). They inherited a large steep hill, which with the lift extensions built for the 2008/9 season currently has the largest vertical in North America.

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I saw my first snowboard in 1983, on Regis's film "Apocalypse Snow". At the time the only snowboards I could find didn't seem to have edges, and I wasn't too impressed with that as I could afford only piste riding back then. The solution was obvious: I copied the guys in the film on Monoskis, and learnt how to ride moguls on one ski. I didn't start riding sideways until '89, so I can't remember what board designs were like in 1986. Certainly they didn't have inserts; they did have loud graphics though. So I'm not sure what the 1986 is all about, but the "Mullet" bit may be a reference to the Burton Fish, or it may not be.

Anyway, this is a review of the Lib Tech Snow Mullet 1986 for riding powder. By "powder" I mean specifically cat and heli back-country powder, not resort fluff.

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What length snowboard should I buy?

It's the wrong question.
That doesn't stop well meaning but misguided people telling you that the thing should come up to your chin or giving you a random number so you can go off and waste your money on the wrong board. There are even websites which will generate a number for you; wrapping a fallacy in a little JavaScript presumably makes more people believe it. It's still wrong and a bit stupid.

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