Deeper Unplugged in Seattle this Friday

For anyone that missed the Deeper Unplugged showing in Bellingham, it is showing again this Friday August 27th at Evo's location in Seattle.  Tyler and I will be at this showing with our latest set ups for people to checkout.  Click here for more information.  We hope to see you there!

August Testing on Rainier

Tyler and I got out last Saturday to test our improved ride mode interface and our first article bindings.  For this trip we zipped down to Mt. Rainier and hiked up to a little below Camp Muir.  On the ride mode interface we modified the toe attachment portion to be a single bent sheet metal part instead of a sheet metal part and a CNCd aluminum part.  This change makes set-up easier and it shaves .25 lbs out of the system.  All of our engineering calculations showed the part was stronger than the old set up, but we needed to get out on snow to verify.  The snow wasn't great, I'd call it "sun bucketed" instead of "sun cupped" because the pits were two to three feet wide and about one foot deep.  At least we had snow to test on, sliding in August is always fun.  It turns out that our calculations were correct, the bindings felt even more tightly attached to the board!

Deeper Unplugged Premiere 8/20/10

Tyler and I are going to be at the Deeper Unplugged showing at the Boundary Bay Brewery in Bellingham, WA this Friday, August 20.  We'll have our latest binding system for people to checkout.  For more information on the event click on this link to the Boundary Bay Brewery.

Split30 Pre-sale

With the first production run of our Split30 Splitboard System in full swing, Tyler and I would like to announce the details of the pre-sale.  As an introductory offer to those who pre-order we are offering a $50 discount.  Simply enter:

PreSale

as the discount code at checkout on our store, www.karakorambc.com/store .  The $50 discount only applies to the complete Split30 Splitboard System.  If you would like to purchase the Split30 without straps and highbacks please contact me at bryce@karakorambc.com to work out a different discount.  This pre-sale discount will only be valid until September 1st, 2010.

We should be assembling the bindings in mid September and then shipping them out at the end of September or the beginning of October.  If the binding size you need is out of stock send me an email (bryce@karakorambc.com) to let me know what size you need and I will update the quantities in the store.  

All Karakoram hardgood products will be backed with the following warranty: Karakoram warrants its products to be free of defects in material or workmanship for a period for two (2) years from the date of purchase for the original registered owner, validated with an original sales reciept.  Damage resulting from impact, abuse, misuse, neglect, non-factory modifications, and normal wear and tear are not covered.  If in the event there is an issue that falls outside of the warranty we have a "Crash Replacement Policy"  which is a lifetime guarantee.  If you destroy your binding system in any way we will replace the broken parts for a nominal fee and the return of the broken part(s).  For more information on Karakoram's Warranty visit our website, if info isn't posted yet it will be posted in the near future.

Tyler and I greatly appreciate your support, and look forward to having you be a part of Karakoram.  With your support and feedback you are backing a new wave in backcountry innovation.

-Bryce

Split30 Technology Page

We've had lots of requests for more information on how the Split30 system works.  I finally had the chance to put together a technology page and post it to the website. Click on the link below for more information:

Karakoram Split30 Tech Page

We don't have any production bindings built up yet, so all of the pictures are from prototype systems.  The production bindings will be much prettier :).

I'm going through powder withdrawals right now, so I thought I would throw this picture up of Tyler exiting his powder roost.  Snow...........