Lib-Tech Men’s Orca Snowboard 2023 Lib-Tech

Not your gutless fish. Travis has juiced up this Jackson Hole resort slasher into an apex all terrain tech shred predator. A long floaty nose combined with a powerful poppy contact maximizing short radius “Whale Tail Technology”. A tight 7m trench gouging sidecut. Wide enough to allow you to really put it on a hardpack rail with no toe drag and float pillows like a dream but still narrow enough to be your daily driver all season long. Take it to AK, drop BC pillow stacks or blow minds at the home resort all season. A mammal to eat all fish. TR. Award winning! VOLUME SHIFTED, RIDE THIS BOARD 3-6 CM SHORTER THAN YOUR NORMAL BOARD.

Travis and Mervin will be donating a portion of the sale of each Orca snowboard to the in support of their efforts to prevent the extinction of the Salish Sea’s Southern Resident Killer Whales. #betheirvoice

“I reached out to an old friend and one of the hardest working artists of epic-ness out there, who still manages a-trefl ip-a-day, Andrew Schultz. We teamed up to support The Orca Conservancy’s fi ght to protect the Southern Resident Killer Whales! Not only do a portion of the sales of this board go to the Orca Conservancy, but we will be auctioning off the original painting next fall with all proceeds going to TOC to celebrate this apex predator.” -Travis Rice

Keeping it in the family: This year’s T.Rice Orca base “eye patch” resembles that of Southern Resident K-Pod Orca “Tika” (K-33) born 2001. “Tika” is the grandson of female orca “Sequim” (K-12) and his uncle is “Rain Shadow” (K-37 ), the orcas whose eye patches were used in previous years. His name also means “swift” (in Chinook First Nations language) which is how you’re coming down the mountain on these boards.

Profile: Hybrid Camber
Terrain: Park/Resort/Pow
Response: Medium

Features:

• Dream directional shape and contour for what Travis calls fun
• Apex freeride pow ripper meets resort slashing daily driver
• Floaty nose, tight sidecut, maximum power tail
• Horsepower construction [hp] lighter • environmentally nicer • smoother
• Core: 60% aspen / 40% paulownia
• Glass: tri-ax / bi-ax and basalt alloy
• Top: eco sublimated bio beanstop
• Base: sintered knife cut base
• Birch internal sidewalls
• Uhmw sintered sidewalls
• Uhmw tip/tail impact deflection
• Magne-traction® effortless edge hold serrated steak knife technologyturns ice into powder! 7 strategically located edge serrations provide unreal edge hold and control in all conditions.
• The original award winning rocker/camber hybrid contours engineered for snowboarding patent #7823892 #8511704. Full contact and control in all conditions. “awesome everywhere”. Central rocker builds in carve, edge hold & float. Cambers build in pop, stability and control.
• Andrew Schoultz (@aschoultz)

Profile: Hybrid Camber

The perfect rocker/camber hybrid. Shortened rocker between inserts and camber underfoot with rockered tip/tail for control/precision/float.

Central rocker builds in carve, edge hold, and float. Cambers builds in stability and control. Full contact and control in all conditions.

Shape: Directional Tapered

Directional tapered boards excel in a pure mountain environment. The tail sinks in pow for better float and quicker turns.

A directional shape with a longer, softer nose and a shorter, stiffer tail get taken to the next level with a tapering design—which sees a wider nose tapering into a narrower tail. The advantages are two-fold: this shape not only sees mega-enhanced floatation with a surfy feel in deep powder, it also creates a faster turning snowboard which is noticeably more nimble and great for tree riding.

Flex: 5 – 7 (Scale 1 – 10)

Versatility at its finest. From the park to the peak and anywhere in between.

Base: Sintered

High-end base material that is harder, more durable, and faster than extruded bases.