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Diehard ski fanatics can blame Sherpas Cinema for converting some of the
sport’smost talented rippers to the detached form of snowsliding. The first
board that both Callum and Kye tried out belonged to an unlikelymentor
—
Sherpas principal director, DaveMossop, brought it into remote backcountry
lodges while filming for
All.I.Can
.
and
Into theMind
, and is responsible for
introducing the young disciples to the elixir that is noboarding.
Mossop had previously worked on two films with Cholo Burns, a Selkirk-
based shredder who along with Greg Todds (RIP), came up with the
traction pad/rope system that they marketed as the Noboard [Editor’s
note: for that story see
MountainLife2008“Backcountry Issue.”
] Based in a
forgotten Kootenay town that gets absolutely blasted with snowfall, Todds
and Burns created the noboard pad in part to address the inconvenience
and foot pain associated with snowboard bindings.
But snowboarders complaining about foot pain is laughable to skiers
because ski boots are basically IronMaiden torture devices for your feet,
which is exactly why Callumwas noboarding on that cold Siberian day.
“I had the best run of the trip on the noboard because I had this gnarly
blister frommy ski boot,” he recalls fondly.
SeanPettit, PembertonBackcountry.
Callum, hisbrother Sean, KyePetersenanda fewother local proskiers, have found themselves
hookedon that bindingless feelingof surfingdown themountainwhen conditionsallow.
