It’s very simple: This was the deepest day of the season! Watch Amplid founder Peter Bauer and teamrider Stewart Orr, snorkeling through serious pow. Big shout out to BK (www.mediaproductionbk.com) for filming in such damp and cold conditions and the excellent editing job. And to Pez at Hochkeil Resort for switching on the lifts, only for us.

Fjord Lines is a web series about splitboarding in Norway´s most spectacular mountain ranges. In this series snowboarder and Native Adventures guide Tron Dyb shares some of his adventurous days in the mountains with riding of both unnamed and classic lines around Norway.

Catboarding in Georgia is an absolute must. Georgia, the country on the Black Sea, nestled between the Greater and Lesser Caucasus Mountains, gets heavy snowfalls every winter and is still quite undeveloped except for a few areas. We first developed Bakhmaro with our partner and last season moved on to a completely new region behind Bakhmaro's mountains, Adcharia. We found perfect free freeride terrain, perfect for catskiing, in a cosy little mountain hut with an unforgettable panoramic view.

You are also sick of fiddling around with your heel riser, while splitting up a steep face? With Amplid’s revolutionary invention, the HEEL RISER APP, you can adjust your splitboard binding via voice control while being in hiking mode. All you need is our little blue tooth transmission pack - plug it into your binding, synch it with the app, and your hiking experience will be on a totally different stoke level.

When filmmaker BK received his new highspeed camera, he called in and said he would need „fast moving objects“ to test his new gear. So Amplid founder PB and his shred buddy Stewart took out their new Souly Grails and served as those requested objects. Lean back and enjoy a dose of centrifugal force in „SURFING GROOMERS“.

Sick of vibrating noses and unnerving tip chatter? Then check out Amplid’s ANTIPHASE damping system. Inspired by noise cancellation systems, this technology will give you the most stable ride you'll ever experience. Amplid founder and tech wizard Peter Bauer sheds light into ANTIPHASE‘s RnD process in this new NOTES FROM THE LAB episode…

Photographer, filmmaker and snowboarder Balazs Kovacs has a very own philosophy when it gets to powder shapes. But with Amplid's "Weird Blanks" he can free his mind and turn his weirdest dream shape into reality...

There are days (=and snow conditions) when you simply have to turn off your computer, cancel your meetings and go out for a ride. Nothing beats a good day out in the pow with the crew you work with. Two days ago was one of those days, with 40 cm of fresh and no other tracks except ours.

Snowboarder and filmmaker Mario Käppeli loves to collect moments. He is addicted to documenting happenings, ideally from somewhere out there in the wild mountain world. Stored in his brain or on hard drives, those moments cater as entertaining fireside tales, or simply as ingredients to make short movies about splitboarding with friends.

The Snommelier is one of five boards in Amplid’s “Future Shapes” collection, which Amplid describes like this: “Peter’s [Amplid Founder] most bonkers board concepts, Amplid’s Future Shapes snowboard family snubs the last 40 years of snowboard know-how in a bid to bring fresh ideas to the fore. Experimental by design, these colourful rogues are not just different for the sake of it: each board’s dimensions are artfully curved and skillfully balanced to create a unique personality.”

When our friend and photographer Rasmus Kaessmann called in the other day, desperately begging for a 135 cm short splitboard for his son Taavi, PB intervened: „Hey buddy, I will send you something - including instructions. Please film it with your phone.“ Deal!
Check Taavi’s stoke – priceless! We can‘t stop watching it. Thanks for sharing the love!!!

Amplid came to the conclusion that companies who profit from the use of the environment should – at least - strive to do no harm to the planet, and in the best case actively work to help repair the damage we’ve already inflicted. Building snowboards will always have an environmental footprint, so our goal is to minimize this footprint, whenever possible, by developing new eco-tech and manufacturing processes. And by being the first snowboard company to follow such an eco-correct manufacturing process, Amplid won the first ISPO Eco Award already in 2012 with their “Green Light Project” in.

Trimming splitboard climbing skins can take a little patience and attention to detail, so don’t save it for the last minute. There's nothing worse than cutting your skins in the parking lot and ending up slipping off sidehills and dragging a whole bucket of snow up the skin track with you. Plus your friends will not be impressed.

Heavy snow sticking on your splitboard's topsheet? Annoying. Amplid has been researching with snow repellent surfaces for quite a while. The new nano-corund finnishing used in all 20/21 splitboards is a very big step towards solving stick-snow-issues. But what if the sun heats of the topsheet, and snow starts to stick on the surface again? Amplid founder and tech wizzard Peter Bauer presents a genious and sustainable solution in this new NOTES FROM THE LAB episode…

The intense sensation of riding waist deep powder is based on several factors – but the most powerful one is probably the trivially appearing phenomena known as „spray“. Regardless of whether you feel its uncompared freshness in your face, see the light-reflecting diamonds against the sunlight, or hear the noise of a crystal explosion.

In snowboarding you have park kids, groomer fans, sidecountry riders, backcountry shredders, and "only a few" guys like Lauri Hilander (=yes, that is his real name!) from Finland, who have higher aims. Higher as in "above 8.000m". Follow Lauri during his prepping phase to splitboard up to Cho Oyu - and obvously ride it down along the tibetian side. Really cool and mellow vlog, reflecting Lauri's personality a 100%.

Since splitboard development has reached the end of the road in terms of weight optimization, Peter, founder of Amplid, wanted to know if it is possible to further reduce the weight of his splitboards during the ascent. Because we all dislike heavy snow, which sticks sometimes more or less on our skis during the ascent. Especially not when it resists repeated scraping. So Peter Bauer developed the Stratospheric Topsheet. This is supposed to reflect incoming heat radiation better from the board, therefore causing a cooler surface on which the snow no longer sticks.

The new split innovation at Amplid is a mixture of the Milligram (for construction) and Millisurf (for shape), with this shortened fish tail it is pleasant to turn short and lean on it with confidence. So it is clearly a Millisurf a little bit more solid and less in search of absolute lightness. Although technical, this is not the kind of board that is appreciated at the first curve, it takes a little time to adjust, because she wants to move forward and she doesn't have much patience.

PB: I had been wor­king at Burton for 16 years and went through the full transition from a team rider to being heavily involved with R&D. It was actually one of the factory owners who produced for Burton back then who triggered the thinking process of starting my own brand. That was in 2004. And now here we are with Amplid!

Complete and versatile personality, wherever you take it. The Ticket changes constantly, adapting to the needs of the moment and remai¬ning true to itself, on all types of snow. It is the board that knows how to do everything and knows how to do it well. This all mountain stick has Benn created from the legendary and award-winning Paradigm as a starting point: it will amaze you, combining an easy-care base and low camber with the result of an economical board, made to last.

When you've tasted it, it's hard to do without this Spray Tray in the powder... And as a bonus, this mini swallowtail also knows how to show itself very versatile and accessible. It is part of the Future Amplid's Shape, a pure line of ingeniously designed boards for maximum efficiency, with a directional shape on which the inserts are very close to the tail. The front spatula, very wide, goes up to the tail.

This book is the product of two years of following some of the most dedicated female snowboarders around the world. It contains the resulting medium format photographs and the 28 lith prints from the main body of work, details on how they were crafted, as well as the rider’s very personal stories, their words and works of arts. It is a declaration of love, a historic highlight of the culture, the passion and dedication of Women in Snowboarding.