Armada Sicko Snowboard - 2027 Blue/Black, 160cm

"What Our Gearhead® Experts Are Saying:""A storm dumped over a foot the night before a trip out west, and by mid morning most of the obvious lines were already tracked out. This board kept finding speed in spots that should have bogged down, and by the last run I was hunting for the untouched pockets everyone else had skied past.""Powder days rarely go according to plan, and that's exactly where the Sicko Snowboard from Armada does its best work. It doesn't care much for the marked trail, favoring instead whatever line looks most alive that morning, whether that's a pocket of trees nobody's touched yet or a runout that drops faster than it looks. Riding it feels less like following the mountain and more like negotiating with it. Underneath that attitude sits real engineering. A tapered directional shape shifts extra volume forward, so the nose stays up and surfy even when the snow gets deep and heavy. Bamboosters wake up the Pop-Lownia core with sharp, responsive snap, while a Triax/Biax glass blend keeps the board torsionally solid without going stiff and lifeless underfoot. When a landing comes in rougher than planned, Titanal Impact Plates under the bindings soak up the hit instead of sending it straight to your knees, and a sintered base keeps the speed coming no matter how many traverses stand between you and the next pitch."

Price: $599.95 from Backcountry