Backdrop Splitboarding

17/07/2025

Name this mountain? And yes there’s splitboard routes on it.

25/06/2025

25/06/2025

Backdrop Journal have teamed up with Lynx Freeride to offer our readers a week of 3 days hut to hut splitboarding/ski touring, and 3 days in the cat, all you need to do is email the Backdrop Crew [email protected] to get more info.
We only have very limited places so don’t wait.

26/04/2025

First morning in Narvik, quick skin to the top and a lap of the backside in 20cm of fresh. Just love Norway for prolonging the season and for all the sea views. getting some air time pre Freeride event.

22/04/2025

Avalanche Considerations in Couloirs
Mechanical sintering and the angle of repose of aggregates at rest…geekery terms for avalanche specific considerations for riding steep couloir lines. This advanced terrain is becoming increasingly popular within the backcountry skiing scene. They are traditionally the domain of Scottish winter climbers who may also find these considerations of value... Read More on our site!
Copy and photos by Mike Austin from

05/04/2025

Legends, Thrills, and a few chills - Xavier de Le Rue’s Audi experience XV, Verbier, Switzerland
‘As a pro-freeride athlete, my journey has been inspired by Xavier de le Rue. An Olympian in boardercross and a 3-time freeride world champion as well as an explorer, he has travelled the world making beautiful lines in the mountains with a specialty for steep and exposed. So, when I got the phone call that I was going to get the chance to not only meet him but also freeride and camp with him on the mountain, it was definitely a moment that made me jump up and down like a kid again. ‘

Full article on our site

Audi Experience | The Mountain Camp with Xavier de Le Rue
Verbier, 11–15 March 2025







Photgrapher Patrick Güller,

18/03/2025

Crew member has made the beautiful film Trough Darkness
“High up in northern Norway, above the Arctic Circle, five snowboarders, locals and visitors, are out in the mountains during the polar night. Their attention to the dark is curious, their perception focused on the immediate environment. Their field of view is narrowed along with the length of daylight, everyday life becomes a challenge, one’s own rhythm changes.”

Watch on our site or on YouTube

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15/03/2025

Couldn’t have asked for a better last day of the 2025 Splitboard Workshop. Steep bootpack, fine powder, and a skin back to
Big thanks to and much love to for keeping us safe and passing on his mountain knowledge, and an even bigger thanks to those that attended as without you there’d be no workshop.
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13/03/2025

Couple of shots from the workshop today, before the weather sucked in and we ran for cover.

25/02/2025

Want to learn how to plan a tour, understand conditions and forecasts, plan and execute a hut night, and ride some pow?
If the answers yes we have very limited space left on our Splitboard Skills Week 8-15th March DM us for late availability.

24/02/2025

The Hounds of Georgia!
There is simply no escaping dogs in Georgia, they greet you in the streets, the outskirts of villages, the side of roads, and they even follow you into the mountains.

24/02/2025

Late cancelation so we have one, possibly two spaces on our Splitboard Skills week 8-15th March DM for more info.

After the great success of last years Splitboard Workshop, we’re back bigger and even better for 2025!