1lukeduke

Thank you all for your input. Very descriptive and insight full. Also thank you for the welcomes! Jim I will call you this week. Thank you. I look forward to your insight. Super pumped to be apart of my old love again. Looking forward to seeing you all one day. I plan to one day even make it to an event. Just won't be this year.

Hello to all - I am new to this forum, so I thank everyone in advance for all you time and knowledge in this sport!!! My question has been talked about before but I was unable to find what I was looking for. Here is the back story. I started snowboarding in the late 80's in SoCal. I then moved to Steamboat Springs and began racing SL and GS. I rode both soft and hard boots. I did this for five years and just loved it. But I must say I always loved my hard boots most. I even dreamed of how I could some how use my hard boots for the powder and tree days. I was getting 80-100 days a year with a trip to MT Hood during the summer. I moved back to SoCal and hated the snow so much, I wrote it off. Flash forward 2016. I have not bordered since 1996! 20 years. So I snowboarded three times last year and just loved it. Even with the bad snow. So things have changed immensely since I left! I now am head over heals in love again. I have always had a heart for Eurocarving since my days on my Burton PJ 6. So I have purchased a pair of UPZ boots to get started and now am looking for my next step. Questions: 1. Do I still need to have two boards? (like a Swoard Dual and some other full carve board) 2. I don't mind soft and hard boots for different days as soft boots are a lot stiffer now. Just curious what everyone is getting these days. I am sorry if this is not the correct spot or the correct etiquette for this type of questions. I just want you all to know how excited I am about doing this all over again. As a bonus my kids are starting to learn and I can see it all over again! Thank you all for your comments!!! For my friends from the 90's "you carve you carve even if its icy" 1Lukeduke