Straps and Highbacks

For the straps, riders will get that familiar comfort and response they’d come to expect from Burton with the Hammockstrap ankle straps and Supergrip Capstrap 2.0 toe straps. The ankle straps features a pretty minimal stitchless construction, with a nylon-reinforced cross-spine to dial-up response levels, while the toe cap has a rubber overmould to grip the toe box of your boots on both the climbs and descents.

Once again, that familiar Burton feeling will be noticed in the Double Take buckles which also give you a more secure fixing that takes only a handful of clicks to tighten sufficiently.

The highback is a bit of a departure from Burton’s solid binding options, but still a far cry from the superlight and minimal designs on the like of Spark R&D’s highbacks. It’ll provide a lot of connectivity and support to the back of the boot, but the two cut out channels shave a few extra grams and offer some more lateral flex for surfy turns in the backcountry.

There’s also a splitboard specific forward lean adjuster, with negative forward lean compatibility to allow you to really stretch your legs out on the skin track and cover ground that bit faster.

“All of the reliability and user-friendliness of the T1 Tesla system from Spark, with all of the comfort and fit around your boots that you’d come to expect from Burton”

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We’ve been big fans of the Hitchhikers for a few seasons now, and Burton seem to have created a split specific binding that really caters to the masses. All of the reliability and user-friendliness of the T1 Tesla system from Spark, with all of the comfort and fit around your boots that you’d come to expect from Burton. It’s a winning combination, and one that we haven’t seen replicated close to this well elsewhere in the market.