The spoon-like nose will give you the extra lift you need when you’re surfing the pow without turning you into old lean back Larry. It’ll also give you smoother turn initiation when you’re riding groomers and make the board slightly less catchy and twitchy on piste.

The blunted nose and tail give you extra balance as you’re spinning and sliding, allowing you to ride a slightly shorter board than usual, and giving you added glide through snow. Speed demons rejoice, the SinterTrue base will keep you slipping and sliding and is easily repairable for when you cringe at the sound of a rock scrape.

“It’ll also give you smoother turn initiation when you’re riding groomers and make the board slightly less catchy and twitchy on piste”

2 bamboo rods run from outside the inserts on both sides in the tail out towards the contact points. These help to transfer the energy from your bindings to the contact points quickly and efficiently and will improve your response time when you’re pumping up a storm with your back leg. The rods also increase the torsional stiffness in the tail, giving you a smidgen of extra control, and create a more dynamic pop under the back foot.

Rome have come out swinging with the Ravine this season, and certainly aren’t pulling any punches. If you fancy going toe to toe with Mother Nature, and taking on her gnarliest terrain- then get into the ring with the Ravine strapped to your feet.

If you like a powerful tail, the Rome Mountain Division may be what you’ve been looking for. The board is still overall, but you can instantly feel how it’s loaded up at the back. Making it work for you doesn’t take a Herculean effort, but you do have to be pretty switched on.

“There’s just not much of an excitement factor with this board. Perhaps that’s unfair, as it doesn’t have any obvious flaws”

Everything else about the Mountain Division says ‘dependable all-mountain workhorse’. It’s not all that lively, but does a great job at killing chatter. It’s light, but not remarkably so.

If these sound like criticisms… well, I guess they are. There’s just not much of an excitement factor with this board. Perhaps that’s unfair, as unlike plenty of other boards I could mention, it doesn’t have any obvious flaws.

But now that there’s so many boards out there that get the heart racing (including several elsewhere in Rome’s stable), it’s hard to get too worked up about the Mountain Division, as serviceable as it may be.”

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